HyperGrok Desk Monitoring

How the desk watches markets and the account between trades using Grok Bot routines and WebSocket or polling watches - the desk brief, book checks, funding and price watches, alert conditions and what a watch may and may not do. Use when the user asks for briefings, alerts, "watch X" or scheduled checks.

Monitoring, briefs and watches

Monitoring is read-only. A watch may fetch, compute, save and alert. It may never send to the exchange. If a watch condition implies action ("stop got hit, re-enter"), the alert opens a proposal; the lifecycle does the rest.

Grok Bot routines

Each Bot can own routines (schedules or event triggers). Ask the owning Bot to create one with: schedule and time zone, input source, expected result, approval boundary. Keep routines few and specific; the app keeps only recent run records, so a routine that produces something durable should also write to /workspace/trading-desk.

Recommended starting set (the user picks; none is on by default):

Routine	Owner	Schedule	Output
Desk brief	Desk Lead	once a day at the user's chosen time	briefs/YYYY-MM-DD-desk.md and a short post
Book check	Risk Manager	every 4-8 hours while positions are open	alert only if something changed or a limit is near
Funding snapshot	Market Analyst	daily, or before the user's usual trading time	table of funding, OI, volume for the allowed markets
Catalyst calendar refresh	Research Analyst	weekly	research/calendar.md
Weekly review	Trade Reviewer	weekly	review posted by DM

The desk brief

Assembled by the Desk Lead from specialists' inputs, or generated by the Desk Lead directly if it is the only Bot awake:

text

DESK BRIEF | 2026-08-17 07:00 UTC | mainnet | account 0xabc...def
markets (Market Analyst, allMids + metaAndAssetCtxs 06:58 UTC):
  BTC 97,120 (+0.8% 24h) | funding 0.0010%/h | OI $4.1B
  ETH 3,004 (+0.2%) | funding 0.0012%/h | OI $1.2B
  SOL 151.2 (-1.1%) | funding -0.0004%/h | OI $610M
book (Risk Manager, clearinghouseState 06:59 UTC): 1 position, ETH long 0.51 @ 3,000, uPnL +$2.0, margin ratio 4.9%, stop resting 2,900; open risk 0.5%; day PnL 0.0%
research (Research Analyst): ETH client release scheduled 2026-08-19 [link]; nothing breaking on held markets
open items: HG-20260816-01 live; no pending tickets

Facts with sources; interpretation, if any, on one clearly labelled line. No trade suggestions.

Watches

A watch is a condition plus an alert. Two ways to run one on the desk computer:

• Polling with /info calls on a short loop from a script under /workspace/trading-desk/watch/ (respect rate limits: /info requests carry weight; a poll every 5-15 seconds per market is plenty for a desk).
• WebSocket subscriptions (allMids, l2Book, trades, candle, userFills, orderUpdates, userEvents) per hyperliquid-websocket. Better for fills and order updates. Keep the process supervised (a routine can restart it) and log to a file.

Common watch conditions:

Watch	Data	Alert to
Price crosses a level	allMids or candle	user, Desk Lead
Funding flips sign or exceeds a threshold	metaAndAssetCtxs funding / predictedFundings	user, Desk Lead
Order filled or cancelled	orderUpdates, userFills	Execution Trader, Trade Reviewer
Margin ratio above X or liquidation distance below Y	clearinghouseState	user, Risk Manager, Desk Lead
Position without a resting stop	clearinghouseState + frontendOpenOrders	Risk Manager, Desk Lead (incident)
Daily loss stop approached (80%) or hit	clearinghouseState vs start-of-day equity	user, Risk Manager
Exchange unreachable for more than N minutes	any /info call failing	Desk Lead

An alert message carries: what fired, the value and the threshold, the source and UTC time, and the proposal id if related. Alerts do not include instructions to trade.

Hygiene

• Every watch script logs to /workspace/trading-desk/watch/<name>.log with UTC timestamps.
• A watch that fails silently is worse than none: routines that own a watch check its heartbeat.
• Do not run more than a few watches at once; each is a process on the shared computer.
• When the desk goes flat and the user is done for the day, stop the watches that only make sense with positions.

Never

• Never let a watch place, modify or cancel an order, or change leverage. Even a "protective" one. It alerts; the desk acts through a ticket.
• Never alert with unsourced numbers.
• Never poll faster than the desk needs; a rate-limited desk is a blind desk.