Egbert is built around paper pilots, explicit activation steps, and visible controls because live execution can lose money, misbehave operationally, or fail at the venue layer.
Strategies can lose capital quickly. Volatility, slippage, gaps, and correlation shifts can all produce losses larger than expected from a backtest.
Automation introduces software, infrastructure, data, and integration failure modes. Egbert adds controls, but no software system eliminates operational risk entirely.