diff --git a/backend_api_python/app/services/live_trading/base.py b/backend_api_python/app/services/live_trading/base.py
index 3d7a655b0..66c70cb4c 100644
--- a/backend_api_python/app/services/live_trading/base.py
+++ b/backend_api_python/app/services/live_trading/base.py
@@ -86,6 +86,35 @@ def _get_requests_verify() -> Union[bool, str]:
     return _requests_verify_value
 
 
+# Cached proxy setting for all live-trading REST calls.
+_proxies_value: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None
+_proxies_resolved = False
+
+
+def _get_proxies() -> Optional[Dict[str, str]]:
+    """
+    Resolve the proxy for live-trading REST calls.
+
+    ``PROXY_URL`` is documented (see ``env.example``) to cover "market data,
+    exchange and broker API traffic": CCXT already honors it for market data,
+    but plain ``requests`` does not understand that variable, so without this
+    bridge live-trading REST calls bypass the configured proxy entirely.
+
+    - ``PROXY_URL`` set (http(s):// or socks5(h)://, PySocks is in requirements):
+      returned explicitly and takes precedence over environment proxies.
+    - ``PROXY_URL`` unset: returns ``None`` — nothing is forced and standard
+      ``HTTPS_PROXY`` / ``HTTP_PROXY`` / ``ALL_PROXY`` environment variables
+      still apply through ``requests`` trust_env (with ``NO_PROXY`` bypasses).
+    """
+    global _proxies_value, _proxies_resolved
+    if not _proxies_resolved:
+        proxy_url = (os.environ.get("PROXY_URL") or "").strip()
+        if proxy_url:
+            _proxies_value = {"http": proxy_url, "https": proxy_url}
+        _proxies_resolved = True
+    return _proxies_value
+
+
 @dataclass
 class LiveOrderResult:
     exchange_id: str
@@ -143,6 +172,7 @@ def _request(
                     headers=request_headers or None,
                     timeout=self.timeout_sec,
                     verify=_get_requests_verify(),
+                    proxies=_get_proxies(),
             ) as resp:
                 text = resp.text or ""
                 parsed: Dict[str, Any] = {}
diff --git a/backend_api_python/tests/test_live_rest_proxy.py b/backend_api_python/tests/test_live_rest_proxy.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..73171de59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend_api_python/tests/test_live_rest_proxy.py
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+"""Live-trading REST proxy resolution.
+
+Regression coverage for the live-trading funnel honoring ``PROXY_URL``:
+market data (CCXT) already honored it while ``BaseRestClient._request``
+sent exchange REST traffic directly, so deployments that rely on
+``PROXY_URL`` for exchange reachability broke only on live trading.
+"""
+
+import pytest
+
+from app.services.live_trading import base as rest_base
+from app.services.live_trading.base import BaseRestClient
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _reset_proxy_cache():
+    rest_base._proxies_resolved = False
+    rest_base._proxies_value = None
+    yield
+    rest_base._proxies_resolved = False
+    rest_base._proxies_value = None
+
+
+def _capture_request(monkeypatch):
+    calls = {}
+
+    def fake_request(method, url, **kwargs):
+        calls["method"] = method
+        calls["url"] = url
+        calls.update(kwargs)
+
+        class _Resp:
+            status_code = 200
+            text = "{}"
+
+            def json(self):
+                return {}
+
+            def __enter__(self):
+                return self
+
+            def __exit__(self, *args):
+                return False
+
+        return _Resp()
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(rest_base.requests, "request", fake_request)
+    return calls
+
+
+def test_explicit_proxy_url_is_applied(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("PROXY_URL", "http://infra-01:20171")
+    calls = _capture_request(monkeypatch)
+    BaseRestClient("https://example.com")._request("GET", "/time")
+    assert calls["proxies"] == {
+        "http": "http://infra-01:20171",
+        "https": "http://infra-01:20171",
+    }
+
+
+def test_socks5h_proxy_url_is_applied(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("PROXY_URL", "socks5h://127.0.0.1:10808")
+    calls = _capture_request(monkeypatch)
+    BaseRestClient("https://example.com")._request("GET", "/time")
+    assert calls["proxies"] == {
+        "http": "socks5h://127.0.0.1:10808",
+        "https": "socks5h://127.0.0.1:10808",
+    }
+
+
+def test_unset_proxy_url_forces_nothing(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.delenv("PROXY_URL", raising=False)
+    calls = _capture_request(monkeypatch)
+    BaseRestClient("https://example.com")._request("GET", "/time")
+    assert calls["proxies"] is None  # trust_env (standard vars) stays in charge
+
+
+def test_resolution_is_cached_per_process(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("PROXY_URL", "http://first:1")
+    assert rest_base._get_proxies()["http"] == "http://first:1"
+    monkeypatch.setenv("PROXY_URL", "http://second:2")
+    assert rest_base._get_proxies()["http"] == "http://first:1"
+
+
+def test_funnel_is_single_entrypoint(monkeypatch):
+    """Guard: _request must keep forwarding the resolved proxies kwarg."""
+    monkeypatch.setenv("PROXY_URL", "http://infra-01:20171")
+    calls = _capture_request(monkeypatch)
+    client = BaseRestClient("https://example.com")
+    client._request("POST", "/order", json_body={"x": 1})
+    assert calls["method"] == "POST"
+    assert calls["proxies"] is not None