Building a Trend Following Bot That Actually Works
After killing 4 bots, I built one that survived backtesting, dry runs, and live trading. Here’s the full breakdown.
After killing 4 bots, I built one that survived backtesting, dry runs, and live trading. Here’s the full breakdown.
I went from market order SL to exchange-side STOP_LIMIT and it changed everything. Here’s every mistake along the way.
My bot doesn’t trade the same coins forever. Every 3 hours, it picks the best ones automatically. Here’s the algorithm.
I spent weeks building a WebSocket price feed. Then I realized I didn’t need it at all.
After trend-following, I built a completely different bot based on Fair Value Gaps. It passed a full year of out-of-sample testing.
My bot was missing every trade for the first 9 hours of each day. The cause? Mixing UTC and KST in one line of code.
A practical guide to building trading bots with AI. What Claude Code is great at, what it’s terrible at, and how to get the best results.
Forget win rate. A 35% win rate can make you rich. A 70% win rate can bankrupt you. Here’s the math.
A collection of Binance Futures API quirks that aren’t in the documentation. Each one cost me hours.
One bot follows trends. The other trades mean reversion. Together, they cover each other’s weaknesses.