How NYTSHIFT works, in short.

PAPER and LIVE

PAPER fills simulated orders against the live order book with practice money and never sends an order to a venue. Signed out, it runs in this browser. Signed in, the server keeps it running while the tab is closed, and your phone trades the same PAPER account.

LIVE sends real orders from your own account. On Hyperliquid you set it up once in Account & funding: connect your wallet, add a passkey and approve a NYTSHIFT trading key that can place and cancel orders but never withdraw. On Pacifica and Jupiter Perps, which you pick in the Trade venue picker, you turn on Solana trading once per device in the ticket. Switching between PAPER and LIVE never sends anything by itself. Operator sessions also have an APPROVAL mode that reviews each order before it is sent.

What LOCKED means

A venue shows LOCKED when live trading exists but something is not ready yet: your setup is not finished, your eligibility has lapsed, an earlier order is still being checked, the price is stale, or the operator has paused new trades. Locked never means broken. Market data, PAPER and your account stay available, and if you hold a position you can still reduce it, close it and change its protection. The screen says why in a plain sentence and keeps the technical code under "Technical reason".

Operator session

An operator session is the owner's own control session for the NYTSHIFT signer. It only works from the owner's machine, so the public site never shows its form. It is not a customer login: customers sign in and trade from their own accounts.

Kill switch and eligibility

The kill switch is the operator's emergency stop. While it is on, new trades are paused; reducing, closing and protecting an open position still work. It cannot be changed from the browser. Eligibility is the check that lets your account trade live. You get it when you finish setup and renew it from the same setup card when it expires; until then new trades are paused.

Connecting and funding

Account & funding reads your wallet's Hyperliquid balance and, where the venue supports it, prepares a deposit that you sign in your own wallet. NYTSHIFT never asks for a seed phrase, private key, API key or exchange password, never holds your funds and never moves them on its own. Looking up any public address is read-only and asks for no signature.

Keyboard

Ctrl/⌘ + K opens the command palette. Tab and Shift+Tab move through a dialog, Enter or Space presses a control, and Escape closes a dialog that is not busy.

Mobile

Pick a venue and a market first, then open the chart, the order book or your account. Wide tables scroll sideways. Nothing needs hover.

Degraded data

When a price is stale, partial or missing, NYTSHIFT stops using it for alerts, PAPER fills and order review. Wait for a fresh price; an old value is never treated as current.

Unknown order outcomes

If NYTSHIFT cannot tell whether an order went through, do not send it again. Open Trade, then Open orders, and let it check the order with the venue. A reply that the venue received the order is not proof that it filled or was cancelled.