I Killed 4 Trading Bots So You Don't Have To
I built 6 trading bots. 4 of them are dead. Grid bot, RSI scalper, momentum bot, lead-lag bot — each died for a different reason. Here’s what killed them.
Strategy
I Let AI Pick My Trading Strategy — Here's What Happened
I gave Claude Code my trading data, my failures, and my constraints. Then I asked it to design a strategy from scratch. The result outperformed everything I’d built manually.
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.
Why I Run Two Bots, Not One
One bot follows trends. The other trades mean reversion. Together, they cover each other’s weaknesses.
The Trade Went +4% in 5 Minutes. Then It All Disappeared
When a trade moves +4% in the first 5 minutes, you need special handling. Here’s my surge detection system.