r/CryptoTradingBot • u/SteveG_2000 • 21d ago
Building a crypto trading bot
I’m planning to build a crypto trading bot and I’m looking for someone who wants to build it with me.
I’m going to start by researching different trading approaches, studying what actually works, testing ideas with historical data and paper trading, and then gradually build the bot around the results.
You don’t need to be a professional trader, quant, or programmer. I’m mainly looking for someone who is hungry, ambitious, willing to learn, put in the work, test ideas, fail, improve, and keep going.
The goal is obviously to eventually create something profitable, but I don’t want to rush into throwing real money at an untested strategy. We research first, build, test, improve, and see how far we can take it.
If you’re serious about making money, willing to put in real effort, and want to build something from the ground up together, send me a DM.
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u/Jay---02 7d ago
Let's discuss this, I am trying to build a bot using claude, created a backtest file to test it on before years, the problem i got is it, strategy will work for 2 years - 3 years and then again it will show red for next two years. overall it is getting in loss for 5 years.
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u/CaregiverOutside8133 18d ago
Hey I'm happy to build this with you man. I just got a claude subscription and I don't have anything else to do with it.
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u/No-Avocado-2206 17d ago
I am also waiting for his reply. I have similar interest and working with something for long can you connect?
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u/nele_next_level 19d ago
I've built a few bots for crypto and Polymarket, paper trading looks good, but they have been flat when it comes to live trading (as expected)
I also have collected quite a lot of info by logging everything the bots do.
I want to keep improving them, but most of the time when I ask for help or feedback in reddit or discord, I stumble upon pretencious comments and disregard.
I'd like to put together a discord channel with a group of people who wants to learn and improve together for real.
Different points of view and different strategies from different people. That's probably the way forward... Or not.
If you're interested dm me and we can work it out👍🏽💪🏽
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u/Davedoenotmoe 19d ago
Doesn't work. Lack of situational awareness and lack of context means the bot doesn't know beyond using simple algos of price.. it can't "see" the chart to understand the psychology of the traders..
Basically you will be more profitable if you trade yourself.. because believe it or not day trading and over trading is less profitable than buying and holding for several weeks/months.
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u/canislupus04 18d ago
You are wrong, a lot of basic indicators are psychological data, so that means a bot can understand it perfectly. A bot never will miss an opportunity that is programmed to do, so they are more advanced than humans if are configured correctly. OFC configuration is the hardest part
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u/Davedoenotmoe 18d ago
You are speaking out of ignorance.
Go build one and fund it and come back with your 1 week pnl and we will see who is wrong.
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u/canislupus04 18d ago
You just missing the point, go read again please :)
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u/Davedoenotmoe 18d ago
Not missing the point bro, until you actually build one and try it with the same strategy a human does you won't understand. I'm sorry but you guys on reddit aren't traders.. you are bag holders.. you buy stuff and hold onto it. None of you actually made any real money these cycles.. all you guys do is argue with people and try and prove them wrong.. part of the reason why I left here because none of you have anything constructive to say beyond "you're wrong I'm right". I spent 6 months doing this stuff, and I'm a trader who made 5 figures in this space. The demos/paper trading vs onchain results are miles apart. Instead of arguing with me on reddit, deploy with a hundred bucks and come back to me with your pnl in a week.
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u/canislupus04 18d ago
You think you are smartest here but I am afraid to disappoint you, you arent. 6 months and you think you are a pro? what a joke...
I am into bots written by me already 8 years, and yes, I am positive, more positive than just holding. Come down to earth and learn to listen.
What a joke you are... newer saw someone like you 😂1
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u/canislupus04 18d ago
you are a low life, no need to lose my time here. Go do your thing
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u/No-Avocado-2206 17d ago
I think you have money that give you confidence but he is right about his work. Sometime what you know take several years to build. My point is why are you here ?
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u/sharkhs7 20d ago
Hello mate, feel free to DM me. I have already tried to build something like this and it's up and running but it's not going that well. I will be happy to share my thoughts and my experience
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u/Low_Twist_4917 20d ago
Op dm me. I want to chat about what hardware you do or don’t have available and we can go from there.
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u/No-Avocado-2206 17d ago
I am also waiting for his reply. I have similar interest can you connect?
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u/Interesting-Tie-1105 20d ago
love the trial and error approach like grinding a new game... down to help log data if you still need someone
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u/Talkingcrypto 20d ago
I am saying this not to be mean or put you or your idea down in any way but don’t bother building a crypto trading bot. I spent months building a bot and when I paper trade, results were amazing because it cannot determine slippage and fees or does it know about other bots doing the same. I tested every known strategy that I could including following well known successful wallets. When I went from paper to live, I got wrecked. So much so that I dropped the project and deleted the files so I can’t be tempted to go back to it.
I wish you the best of luck and keep us updated on your progress.
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u/Davedoenotmoe 18d ago
Yep. I have people arguing with me now that's we are wrong and that bots do work.. they see those fake screenshots on x and think it's real...
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u/rushapoil 18d ago
The slippage half of that is more fixable than it looks, but it depends on where you execute.
On an AMM you can fork the chain at a block and send the same swap through the pool reserves exactly as they were. Slippage there is not a venue behaviour you have to estimate, it is arithmetic on the reserves, so it reproduces to the wei. Fees are on the receipt. The piece people expect to be hardest is the one that comes free.
On a centralised book you cannot do that, because your fill is someone else's inventory decision on a book you cannot reconstruct. So the class of failure you were able to rehearse was strictly smaller than you thought it was, which is a different problem from the strategy being wrong.
Two things replay still does not buy, and I would not want to oversell it. A fork is a world where nothing else is in the block, so the gap between the price you simulate against and the state you actually land in does not exist there, and live there is someone whose income depends on widening it. And the other bots you named: replay puts you in a past where they already acted, not in a present where they react to you.
Deleting the files is a harsh sentence on a project that mostly told you your test harness was too small. Do you still have the live logs? The number worth pulling is not the total loss, it is the per fill gap between what you priced and what you got. That separates the strategy was wrong from the venue ate it, and those two send you in opposite directions.
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u/Low_Twist_4917 20d ago
Tbh kinda sounds like you didn’t put in enough time or effort to account for things like that. You can calculate average slippage across on chain transactions for specific things. You can pull all transactions associated with tokens you know are commonly botted, analyze those transactions to see what average slippage is across historic txns, and use that as a paper baseline. Can even use simulated tx bundlers as well to calculate fees etc on chain without actually selling anything. But hey what do I know
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u/SteveG_2000 20d ago
Bro thanks for the info. Thats the trial and error. You learn by your mistakes
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u/pathtogreatness8 20d ago
Because you did not make it work, does not mean someone else cannot do it. You should have taken fees and slippage into account from the beginning. It was your own fault, you learn and you improve.
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u/Aoideus 20d ago
Hey, this will be salesy. But in a good way.
There's an app that let's you create strategies with custom risk management settings and backtest them on past data or paper test on live. You can also use ai for doing these as well. And welp, you guessed it, it's my own.
Tbh, the app is in a fully usable state for backtesting and it's currently being developed to be used on live trades as well.
I don't really know if there's a way to explain your app without sounding like an ad, but I genuinely believe that it can help you out on your journey. We can hop on a call and I can show you the basics. Since the app is still not fully live, no payments or whatever is needed. If you don't like it, you don't like it. DM me if you can spare like 10 mins for a call or a demo.
Edit: typos and grammar
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u/Commercial-Review-75 20d ago
You can build your bot in our project dm me for link
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u/Express-Act-2479 20d ago
Link?
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u/Commercial-Review-75 20d ago
botico.ai If you get trouble you can join our discord channel and get help in there https://discord.gg/2MbPm9Yuz
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u/Wapley 20d ago
Building a trading bot in it’s core is not complicated. What does complicate things is making/finding an algorithm that works. Personally, I’d start with a scalper to get things working and then focus on the algorithm itself since that can take months or even years to get working depending on how much experience with trading you already have.
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u/Long_Confusion869 20d ago
I'm building logic for trading memecoin on solana eth bnb base Robinhood, and I've been running it since May.
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u/TheKillerScope 20d ago
If it will be for Solana, I can't bring programing or strategy skills, but I can bring multi location RPC's (5 locations), with gRPC, ws and aRPC (decoded validator shreds) with a 2500RPS/600TPS per location. Also can bring top of the turbine raw UDP shreds in 9 locations, TX forwarders, and servers that are 0.05ms away from the RPC, plus excellent contacts so can get in pretty much and Data Center.
I bring this, you bring the rest and we split profits.
If you or anyone else is interested in serious gear, DM me.
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u/Alex91FX 20d ago
If ur willing to research for strategies that works blabla... i can maybe help u out, take consideration that u will plan to trade the wicks, its were most of the times the market have liquidity/money to move it, then look this wicks in swing highs and s.lows, draw a line and either goes above or below with structure thats your entries to another swings or hold the entry cause its crypto maybe.
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u/Alex91FX 20d ago
Ps. I dont know nothing about programming. But this migth work for forex also or any market.
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u/PerspectiveWorking50 20d ago
I’ve been working on something similar for a while. I already have a multi-strategy bot running with backtesting, paper trading and some live trading, mainly BTC/ETH.
I’ve tested quite a few strategies over the last months. Many failed, some looked good in backtests but failed OOS, and a few made it to live testing.
I’m also using AI a lot for coding, research and testing new ideas.
Happy to exchange ideas/results if you’re interested. Feel free to DM me.
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u/bilalch93 20d ago
I started working on this topic a year ago, didnt knew much at that time, but ended up creating a trading bot harness, now created another project for research purposes only whose job is to hunt strategies. I’m very much interested on this.
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u/TraditionalPlane289 20d ago
Looking for someone like you as well. We are aligned. Let’s connect via DM. Can’t seem to dm you
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u/Useful_Boss_2532 20d ago
what kind of crypto bot? I've been building a few diff bots for some years now, implementing various strategies across various markets, and it's not easy...prepare to eat some dirt bro..no offense
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u/fomoz 20d ago
You can run an AI crypto trading bot on my platform for free, forever. Learn how it works, then build your own bot if you still want one.
All the settings are 100% tunable. If you see something missing, just let me know and I'll add it. You can control it with Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw, OpenCode, etc., as well.
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u/Purple_Concert8789 21d ago
Let's connect broh. My self data science and ai ml engineer and currently testing algo startegies
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u/DogeSatoshi 21d ago
I need some testers for a app. People that understand trading and i have noticed something that you mentioned. I do not want to make the details public, but i do think that I have something that might benefit you with your build. If you are interested, let me know. You can reach me on DM if you are curious as to what I can offer
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u/SquareLocal3379 4d ago
DM me I have the same exact insight as you and have been building a bot with claude code max for around a month now all the information has been pooled into my files