My Algorithmic Trading Bot Silently Failed to Notify: The Curious Case of Missing `.env` Loads Across Scripts

Short summary

A developer discovered that Discord notifications in their algorithmic trading bot were silently failing because executor.py was missing a load_dotenv() call that planner.py had. When run independently, executor.py couldn't find the webhook URL, causing notifications to silently fail—a dangerous scenario for a system handling real money. The fix was adding load_dotenv(find_dotenv()) to executor.py before notification calls.

• •Trading bot's Discord notifications silently failed due to missing load_dotenv() in executor.py
• •Implicit dependency on planner.py loading .env first caused silent failures when scripts ran independently
• •Fix: add load_dotenv(find_dotenv()) to every script that needs environment variables

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