Trade Gate
by Verdict L402 in Markets & finance
Pre-trade risk check for traders and trading bots. Before an order is sent, checks it exactly against your own rules (risk per trade, daily loss, max loss, cooldown after a loss, trade quota, blocked hours, days and instruments, minimum reward to risk) and computes the largest size still allowed. If
https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/trade-gate- Price
- $0.017
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 560 ms
- 763 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 5 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/trade-gate
Each call costs $0.0172 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/trade-gate
content-type: application/json
{
"account": {
"consecutive_losses": 2,
"day_pnl": -900,
"equity": 24100,
"minutes_since_last_loss": 4,
"start_of_day_equity": 25000,
"trades_today": 3
},
"order": {
"entry": 1.085,
"side": "long",
"size": 150000,
"stop": 1.082,
"symbol": "EURUSD",
"target": 1.091
},
"rationale": "Two stops in a row, I need to get it back before the close. Doubling size, it has to bounce here.",
"rules": {
"cooldown_minutes_after_loss": 15,
"daily_loss_pct": 5,
"max_risk_pct": 1
}
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
account | object | Yes | { equity, start_of_day_equity, day_pnl, initial_balance, peak_equity, open_risk, trades_today, consecutive_losses, minutes_since_last_loss, usual_risk_amount } (equity required, the rest optional) |
news | any | No | (optional) recent headlines or news about the instrument |
now | any | No | (optional) ISO date and time of the order, for excluded hours and days |
order | object | Yes | { symbol, side (long|short), entry, stop, target (optional), size or risk_amount, point_value (optional, value of one point per unit) } |
rationale | string | No | (optional) why you take this trade, in one or two sentences |
rules | object | No | (optional) { max_risk_pct, daily_loss_pct, max_loss_pct, trailing, max_trades_per_day, cooldown_minutes_after_loss, max_consecutive_losses, min_rr, blocked_hours, blocked_weekdays, blocked_symbols, blocked_side, no_size_up_after_loss }: the trade-audit flight plan plugs in as is |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 39 lines
{
"mode": "trade-gate",
"paid_sats": 20,
"payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
"receipt": {
"payload": {
"at": "<ISO 8601 time>",
"kid": "<signing key id>",
"mode": "trade-gate",
"payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
"v": 1,
"verdict_sha256": "<sha256 hex of the verdict>"
},
"signature": "<base64url Ed25519 signature>"
},
"verdict": {
"allowed_risk_amount": 241,
"binding_limit": "max_risk",
"decision": "wait",
"max_size": 80333.3333,
"reasons": [
"mandatory pause after a loss",
"the reason shows a wish to win back a loss",
"risk above your maximum per trade"
],
"risk_amount": 450,
"risk_pct": 1.8672,
"rr": 2,
"rule": "block if a hard rule fires (no stop, daily or total loss limit reached, quota, losing streak, excluded hour, day, instrument or direction, reward to risk too low); wait if a cooldown after a loss applies, revenge or fear of missing out >= 0.7, impulse >= 0.7 without a plan, or contrary news >= 0.75; reduce if the risk exceeds the allowed headroom or overconfidence >= 0.7; otherwise go. The maximum size respects the smallest remaining headroom.",
"scores": {
"fomo": 0.2,
"impulse": 0.6,
"overconfident": 0.4,
"plan": 0.1,
"revenge": 0.93
},
"wait_minutes": 30
}
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.0172.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/trade-gate' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"account":{"consecutive_losses":2,"day_pnl":-900,"equity":24100,"minutes_since_last_loss":4,"start_of_day_equity":25000,"trades_today":3},"order":{"entry":1.085,"side":"long","size":150000,"stop":1.082,"symbol":"EURUSD","target":1.091},"rationale":"Two stops in a row, I need to get it back before the close. Doubling size, it has to bounce here.","rules":{"cooldown_minutes_after_loss":15,"daily_loss_pct":5,"max_risk_pct":1}}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/trade-gate' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"account":{"consecutive_losses":2,"day_pnl":-900,"equity":24100,"minutes_since_last_loss":4,"start_of_day_equity":25000,"trades_today":3},"order":{"entry":1.085,"side":"long","size":150000,"stop":1.082,"symbol":"EURUSD","target":1.091},"rationale":"Two stops in a row, I need to get it back before the close. Doubling size, it has to bounce here.","rules":{"cooldown_minutes_after_loss":15,"daily_loss_pct":5,"max_risk_pct":1}}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.0172 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.0172" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.0172 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fverdict.kechlab.com%2Fv1%2Ftrade-gate&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/trade-gate", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"account": {
"consecutive_losses": 2,
"day_pnl": -900,
"equity": 24100,
"minutes_since_last_loss": 4,
"start_of_day_equity": 25000,
"trades_today": 3
},
"order": {
"entry": 1.085,
"side": "long",
"size": 150000,
"stop": 1.082,
"symbol": "EURUSD",
"target": 1.091
},
"rationale": "Two stops in a row, I need to get it back before the close. Doubling size, it has to bounce here.",
"rules": {
"cooldown_minutes_after_loss": 15,
"daily_loss_pct": 5,
"max_risk_pct": 1
}
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.0172 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.0172"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/trade-gate",
json={
"account": {
"consecutive_losses": 2,
"day_pnl": -900,
"equity": 24100,
"minutes_since_last_loss": 4,
"start_of_day_equity": 25000,
"trades_today": 3,
},
"order": {
"entry": 1.085,
"side": "long",
"size": 150000,
"stop": 1.082,
"symbol": "EURUSD",
"target": 1.091,
},
"rationale": "Two stops in a row, I need to get it back before the close. Doubling size, it has to bounce here.",
"rules": {
"cooldown_minutes_after_loss": 15,
"daily_loss_pct": 5,
"max_risk_pct": 1,
},
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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