diff --git a/docs/OPERATIONS.md b/docs/OPERATIONS.md
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@@ -37,6 +37,120 @@ The health check returns a 200 OK response with a JSON body:
 }
 ```
 
+
+
+### Market Gateway Readiness Checks
+
+The market gateway exposes readiness and liveness endpoints for Kubernetes
+deployment checks. These can be used in local development and CI pipelines
+to validate the gateway is ready to accept traffic.
+
+#### Readiness Endpoint
+
+```bash
+# Check if the market gateway is ready
+curl -s http://localhost:9000/health/ready
+```
+
+**Ready response (200 OK):**
+```json
+{
+  "status": "ready"
+}
+```
+
+**Not ready response (503 Service Unavailable):**
+```json
+{
+  "status": "not ready"
+}
+```
+
+The readiness check returns 200 when the gateway is healthy and able to serve
+requests. It returns 503 when the gateway is still initializing or has been
+marked unhealthy.
+
+#### Liveness Endpoint
+
+```bash
+# Check if the market gateway is alive
+curl -s http://localhost:9000/health/live
+```
+
+**Response (200 OK):**
+```json
+{
+  "status": "alive"
+}
+```
+
+The liveness check always returns 200 if the process is running. Use this
+for Kubernetes liveness probes to detect if the process needs to be restarted.
+
+#### Health Endpoint
+
+```bash
+# Check overall health status
+curl -s http://localhost:9000/health
+```
+
+**Response (200 OK):**
+```json
+{
+  "status": "ok",
+  "version": "3.2.0",
+  "uptime_seconds": 86400,
+  "timestamp": "2024-01-15T00:00:00Z"
+}
+```
+
+#### Example Kubernetes Configuration
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: market-gateway
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: gateway
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 9000
+        readinessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /health/ready
+            port: 9000
+          initialDelaySeconds: 5
+          periodSeconds: 10
+        livenessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: /health/live
+            port: 9000
+          initialDelaySeconds: 15
+          periodSeconds: 20
+```
+
+#### CI Integration
+
+```bash
+# Start the gateway in background
+go run ./market/main.go &
+
+# Wait for it to be ready
+for i in $(seq 1 30); do
+  if curl -s http://localhost:9000/health/ready | grep -q '"status": "ready"'; then
+    echo "Gateway is ready"
+    break
+  fi
+  sleep 1
+done
+
+# Run integration tests
+go test ./market/...
+```
+
 ### Prometheus Metrics
 
 Each service exposes Prometheus metrics at `/metrics` on the same port as the
diff --git a/market/gateway/readiness_test.go b/market/gateway/readiness_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c60ed3ad
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+++ b/market/gateway/readiness_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+package gateway
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestReadinessEndpointReturnsReadyWhenHealthy(t *testing.T) {
+	gw := &Gateway{}
+	gw.health.Store(true)
+
+	handler := gw.handleReadiness()
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/health/ready", nil)
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	handler.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want %d; body=%s", rec.Code, http.StatusOK, rec.Body.String())
+	}
+
+	var body map[string]string
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &body); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to unmarshal response: %v", err)
+	}
+	if body["status"] != "ready" {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %q, want %q", body["status"], "ready")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestReadinessEndpointReturnsNotReadyWhenUnhealthy(t *testing.T) {
+	gw := &Gateway{}
+	gw.health.Store(false)
+
+	handler := gw.handleReadiness()
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/health/ready", nil)
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	handler.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusServiceUnavailable {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want %d; body=%s", rec.Code, http.StatusServiceUnavailable, rec.Body.String())
+	}
+
+	var body map[string]string
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &body); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to unmarshal response: %v", err)
+	}
+	if body["status"] != "not ready" {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %q, want %q", body["status"], "not ready")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLivenessEndpointReturnsAlive(t *testing.T) {
+	gw := &Gateway{}
+
+	handler := gw.handleLiveness()
+	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/health/live", nil)
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+
+	handler.ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want %d; body=%s", rec.Code, http.StatusOK, rec.Body.String())
+	}
+
+	var body map[string]string
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(rec.Body.Bytes(), &body); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to unmarshal response: %v", err)
+	}
+	if body["status"] != "alive" {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %q, want %q", body["status"], "alive")
+	}
+}