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Short, practical notes on building, backtesting and running automated trading systems. No hype — just the parts we wish someone had written down when we were starting out.
- Oct 5, 20269 min read
How to Build a Trading Bot with Python (A Beginner's Guide)
You can get a Python trading bot running in a weekend. The hard part is building one you'd actually trust with real money. Here's the whole picture — not just the fun bit.
PythonTrading BotBeginners - Oct 5, 20268 min read
How to Build an AI Trading Bot (Without the Hype)
'AI trading bot' means ten different things depending on who's selling it. Here's what the honest version actually looks like — what AI is genuinely good at, and where it's mostly marketing.
AIGPTTrading BotLLM - Oct 4, 20265 min read
From Idea to Rule: Turning a Trading Hunch into a Testable Strategy
A hunch is not a strategy until it has entry rules, exit rules and a risk cap. Here's the simple process of turning fuzzy intuition into something a bot can execute.
StrategyRulesProcess - Oct 1, 20268 min read
Deploying a Trading Bot on AWS EC2 with Docker: A Practical Overview
Running a bot on your laptop is a prototype. Running it on a cloud server with Docker, systemd and logs is a system. Here's what the move looks like.
AWSDockerDeploymentDevOps - Sep 27, 20267 min read
What Backtesting Actually Tells You (and What It Hides)
A clean backtest is not evidence of future returns. Here's how to read one honestly — and which failure modes almost always slip through.
BacktestingStrategyRisk - Sep 20, 20266 min read
How to Use ChatGPT and Claude to Write Trading Bot Code
AI coding assistants can draft, debug and refactor trading logic faster than you can type. Here's how to use them without ending up with code you don't understand.
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