Python Trading Bot Architecture: How to Structure Your Code
Most trading bot tutorials show you the strategy but not the structure. Here’s how to organize a production-ready trading bot in Python.
The Backtest Looked Amazing. It Was Lying.
My momentum bot showed incredible returns in backtests. Then I learned about overfitting — the hard way.
10 Trading Bot Mistakes Every Beginner Makes (I Made All of Them)
I’ve built 6 trading bots and made every mistake possible. Here are the 10 most expensive ones so you don’t have to repeat them.
Backtest vs Reality: Where Dreams Go to Die
My bot showed +500U in backtests. Live trading showed +200U. Here’s every gap I found and how I closed them.
Claude Code vs ChatGPT for Building Trading Bots: An Honest Comparison
Claude AI trading bot vs ChatGPT trading bot: an honest comparison after building both. What each AI is good at, what each fails at, and which one I actually use for live trading.
Building a Trend Following Bot That Actually Works
How I built a trend following crypto bot that actually makes money. After killing 4 trading bots, this is the one that survived backtesting, dry runs, and live trading on Binance Futures.
Stop Loss: The Most Important Feature You'll Get Wrong
I went from market order SL to exchange-side STOP_LIMIT and it changed everything. Here’s every mistake along the way.
Stop Trading Random Coins. Here's How My Bot Picks Winners
My bot doesn’t trade the same coins forever. Every 3 hours, it picks the best ones automatically. Here’s the algorithm.
WebSocket vs REST API: I Deleted 150 Lines and Nothing Broke
I spent weeks building a WebSocket price feed. Then I realized I didn’t need it at all.
Fair Value Gaps: The Strategy That Changed Everything
After trend-following, I built a completely different bot based on Fair Value Gaps. It passed a full year of out-of-sample testing.