Debugging silent notification failures in a Python trading bot caused by missing .env loads

Short summary

A nearly identical retelling of a debugging story where a trading bot's Discord notifications silently failed because executor.py lacked a load_dotenv() call. The webhook URL was None when executor.py ran independently, causing silent notification failures. The fix involved adding load_dotenv(find_dotenv()) to ensure environment variables load regardless of entry point.

• •Duplicate of another post covering the same .env loading bug in a trading bot
• •Same root cause: executor.py missing load_dotenv() causing silent notification failures
• •Same fix: add load_dotenv(find_dotenv()) before notification calls

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