My bot’s first three weeks of live trading were rough. A deep early drawdown forced me to think hard about whether the strategy or the structure was at fault. Here’s what I changed and why.
A breakdown of how the bot performed in April 2026. Trade counts, drawdown, fee load, and what the per-coin and per-day data revealed about the strategy.
If your live bot doesn’t match your backtest, your backtest is fiction. Here’s the comparison tool I built and the bugs it caught.
My bot showed +500U in backtests. Live trading showed +200U. Here’s every gap I found and how I closed them.