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name: adjudication-pretrade-risk-controls
description: Apply the Were the risk controls on before the algorithm started trading — and can anyone prove it? article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
---

# Were the risk controls on before the algorithm started trading — and can anyone prove it?

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/adjudication-pretrade-risk-controls). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/adjudication-pretrade-risk-controls.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/adjudication-pretrade-risk-controls/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

Knight Capital lost $460 million in 45 minutes because code that should not have been running was running, and no control stopped it. The question afterwards was never what the algorithm did. It was whether the risk controls were in place b

## Representations

- Human: /a/adjudication-pretrade-risk-controls
- JSON: /api/articles/adjudication-pretrade-risk-controls
- Relationships: /api/articles/adjudication-pretrade-risk-controls/topology
- History: /api/articles/adjudication-pretrade-risk-controls/revisions