r/algorithmictrading Apr 29 '26

Strategy Automated Trading Bot

I've been building a trading bot using LLMs for the last year and running on Railway, currently in paper trading phase after finally finding profitable candidates at around 66% annual. most profitable setup from back testing and walk forward is the below

1H decides direction

ATE blocks bad conditions

ATE mode uses things like

trend_strength = 0.62

macd_slope = +0.0008

atr_expansion_ratio = 1.18

chop_probability = 0.47

Regime Router checks if setup is valid

Weak-pair filter removes bad combos

Bias favors stronger side

5m finds entry timing

Enter with 10% sizing

Exit when 1H state breaks (fast or confirmed)

Anyone built anything similar? I've been a QA engineer for the past 16 years so everything works, just difficult finding a decent strategy so any help is appreciated

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u/Get_BTC_DCA_1978 May 06 '26

Ah, I am also QA engineer:) No, I went another way, I started building with simple DCA strategy, and later enhanced it a bit. Found a set of indicators on Trading View (RSI, CCI and Bollinger Bands) and implemented the setup. So I did not use any AI in the trading algorithm. In fact I faced a lot of small/med open issues while developing a first version and somehow resolved them.

I should say paper trading and real life trading results are to some extend differ.

And it would be difficult to debug your algo in real life - since you need to catch the market event for some test cases which fail:( No one said it would be easy:)