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Sprints 51-60: Building Trader-7 v6.1 - From Vision to Reality

December 29, 2025
10 min read

Sprints 51-60: Building Trader-7 v6.1 - From Vision to Reality December 29, 2025 | AI Trading Systems · Multi-Agent Architecture · Build in Public --- The Jo...

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AImpactScanner Now Analyzes Every Website - React, Vue, SPAs, and More

December 19, 2025
5 min read

AImpactScanner Now Analyzes Every Website - React, Vue, SPAs, and More December 19, 2025 When we launched AImpactScanner, we had a problem we couldn't solve:...

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The 3-Project Sweet Spot: How AI Enables Impossible Productivity

December 19, 2025
6 min read

The 3-Project Sweet Spot: How AI Enables Impossible Productivity Date: December 19, 2025 Author: Jamie Watters --- The Myth of Multitasking Humans can't mult...

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The Invisible Bugs That Stole My Trades (And How I Found Them)

December 14, 2025
4 min read

The Invisible Bugs That Stole My Trades (And How I Found Them) December 13, 2025 --- For three days, my AI trading system was generating excellent trade setu...

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From Missed Profits to Data-Driven Precision: How I'm Building my Trading Bot's Entry Timing System

December 13, 2025
8 min read

From Missed Profits to Data-Driven Precision: How We're Building Trader-7's Entry Timing System Date: December 13, 2025 Author: Jamie Watters Series: Buildin...

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Crypto Bot - Two Bugs That Cost Me $100 (And How I Fixed Them in One Day)

December 10, 2025
4 min read

Two Bugs That Cost Me $100 (And How I Fixed Them in One Day) December 9, 2025 My trading bot ran for 14 hours yesterday. It lost $100 and taught me two lesso...

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The $0.12 Crypto Trading Decision That Cost Me $9 (Why "Saving Money" Is Expensive)

December 9, 2025
4 min read

The $0.12 Decision That Cost Me $9 (Why "Saving Money" Is Expensive) Day 20 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public --- Here's a question e...

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Implementing the insights from Alpha Arena 1.5 and Grok 4.2's strategies

December 9, 2025
3 min read

Stop Optimizing For Win Rate (What I Implemented After Watching AI Win With 34.6% Accuracy) Day 19 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public ...

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Alpha Arena - A 34% Win Rate Just Crushed the AI Trading Competition. Here's What I'm Stealing.

December 7, 2025
5 min read

A 34% Win Rate Just Crushed the AI Trading Competition. Here's What I'm Stealing. What happens when you let AI models trade against each other for 2 weeks? T...

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I Thought My Crypto Agent Lost Money Overnight. Then I Found the Bug?

December 7, 2025
3 min read

My AI Trader Ran All Night While I Slept (Here's What Happened) Day 19 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public --- I woke up at 8am to chec...

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Crypto Trading Agent - upgrade to reasoning model

December 6, 2025
4 min read

When Your AI Trader Argues With Itself (And You Have to Pick a Winner) Day 18 of building an AI-powered crypto trading system in public --- Today I learned s...

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Crypto Trading Agent - Shipped 4 Features in One Day. Here's What I Learned.

December 6, 2025
4 min read

I Shipped 4 Features in One Day. Here's What I Learned About Compound Momentum. December 5, 2025 - Building Trader-7 in Public --- Yesterday, I woke up with ...

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Crypto Trading Agent - How a $13 Paper Trading Loss Made My AI Trading Bot Smarter

December 6, 2025
3 min read

How a $13 Paper Trading Loss Made My AI Trading Bot Smarter December 4, 2025 - Building Trader-7 in Public --- Yesterday, my AI-powered crypto trading bot lo...

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Agent-11 Progress - Dec 5th

December 6, 2025
3 min read

Day 47: Why Advisory Protocols Always Fail Under Pressure December 5, 2025 Today I shipped Sprint 8 of AGENT-11, and it tackles a problem that's been frustra...

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Crypto Trading Agent - Paper Trading Progressing

December 4, 2025
5 min read

Building an AI Trading Bot: When Your Code Actually Makes Money December 3, 2025 There's something surreal about watching code you wrote at 8am generate $25 ...

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Crypto Trading Agent - Paper Testing

December 2, 2025
4 min read

When Your Bot Opens Two BTC Longs and You Learn to Love It TL;DR: Deployed Sprint 16 fixes to Trader-7 with better dashboard metrics and fee warnings. Disc...

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Agent-11 Progress - Added report to generate social media posts

December 1, 2025
2 min read

Day 43: Shipping Social Media Automation for Build-in-Public December 1, 2025 Today I completed Sprint 7 of AGENT-11, and it's one of those features that wil...

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Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - Nov 30th

December 1, 2025
4 min read

Wrestling with Connections and Consistency: Fixing Trader-7’s Critical Bugs TL;DR: Spent the day squashing three nasty bugs that were tripping up Trader-7’s ...

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Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 29 Nov 2025

November 29, 2025
4 min read

Wrestling with Fees: Making Trader-7 Transparent and Trustworthy TL;DR: Sprint 12 was all about nailing fee transparency in Trader-7. We added detailed fee...

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Agent-11 Progress - 29 Nov 2025

November 29, 2025
3 min read

Locking It Down: Making Persistence Protocols Unbreakable – Day 29 of AGENT-11 > TL;DR: Today I sealed the cracks in AGENT-11’s file persistence during coord...

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