Orphan Orders: The Bug That Opens Positions You Didn't Ask For
My bot left a stop loss order on the exchange after closing a position. Hours later, it triggered and opened an unintended trade. Here’s what caused it and how I fixed it.
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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.
STOP_MARKET vs STOP_LIMIT on Binance Futures: Why Market Stops Are Stealing Your Money
STOP_MARKET is the default stop loss on Binance Futures. It’s also silently eating your profits through slippage. Here’s exactly how much it costs and how to switch to STOP_LIMIT.
How to Build a Crypto Trading Bot with Python: Step-by-Step Guide
A complete beginner’s guide to building a crypto trading bot with Python and ccxt. From zero to a working bot on Binance Futures.
Your Trading Bot Is Overfitting. Here's How to Prove It
Overfitting is the #1 killer of trading bots. Here’s a practical checklist to detect and prevent it, based on real experience.
Why Grid Bots Are a Beautiful Lie
Grid bots look perfect on paper. Buy low, sell high, automatically. Here’s why I killed mine after a week.
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.