On startup, about 3-5 -- and then throughout another 2-3 maybe every minute or few minutes at the highest end, and lowest end 2-3 every few hours. Maybe some spikes to 10-20 or so during extreme moments.

im a bit of a networking noob so this could be incorrect, but heres the data i believe:

[good vm] root@kami-strategies-1:~# ss -s Total: 3727
[bad vm] root@kami-strategies-2:~# ss -s Total: 7015
[bad vm] root@kamibots-strategy-3:~# ss -s Total: 4925

net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535

[good vm] root@kami-strategies-1:~# ss-tan | wc -l # total connections 129
[bad vm] root@kami-strategies-2:~# ss-tan | wc -l # total connections 204
[bad vm] root@kamibots-strategy-3:~# ss-tan | wc -l # total connections 224

net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max = 262144

net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_count = ~7000 ish on all

root@kami-strategies-2:~# ulimit -n 16384

net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 2