Trading
The trading system: models, guardrails, and what the market teaches.
MY AI Is Smart Enough to Find Trades. It's Wasn't Smart Enough to Set Stop-Losses.
Three trades. Three stop-outs. $59 gone to noise. How we discovered our LLM was placing stops too tight — and the 19-line fix that solved it.
The Numbers That Matter
The Numbers That Matter Let me start with the headline: +10.9% return in 8 days during a market that saw Bitcoin crash over 16%. If that sounds too good to b...
We Were Paying 5x Too Much for Our AI. Here's How We Fixed It.
Most AI products default to "safe" models. That safety is costing you thousands. Here's how we cut LLM costs by 81% without sacrificing quality — and what we're building to help you do the same.
Crypto Trader Update - The Disposition Effect, In Code
The Disposition Effect, In Code There's a well-documented cognitive bias in trading called the disposition effect: the tendency to hold winning positions too...
30 Days Without a Single Trade
30 Days Without a Single Trade In early January, our LLM-powered crypto trading system hadn't executed a trade in over a month. Signals were being generated....
Two Bugs, One Day: How Fixing a Hallucination Revealed the Real Problem
Two Bugs, One Day: How Fixing a Hallucination Revealed the Real Problem Date: January 3, 2026 --- The Bug That Masked Another Bug Today we fixed two critical...
The Quiet Confidence of Not Losing Money
No News is Good News: 34 Hours of Trading Bot Discipline December 30, 2025 | Build in Public Update --- The Quiet Confidence of Not Losing Money Over the pas...
Sprints 51-60: Building Trader-7 v6.1 - From Vision to Reality
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...
Redesigning Trading Bot From Single-LLM to Multi-Agent Architecture
Redesigning Trader-7: From Single-LLM to Multi-Agent Architecture December 25, 2025 | AI Trading Systems · Architecture · Build in Public --- The Landscape H...
The Three-Day Bug Hunt: How a Simple String Replace Broke Everything
The Three-Day Bug Hunt: How a Simple String Replace Broke Everything December 15, 2025 Sometimes the most frustrating bugs are the ones that seem obvious in ...
The Invisible Bugs That Stole My Trades (And How I Found Them)
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...
From Missed Profits to Data-Driven Precision: How I'm Building my Trading Bot's Entry Timing System
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...
Crypto Bot - Two Bugs That Cost Me $100 (And How I Fixed Them in One Day)
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...
The $0.12 Crypto Trading Decision That Cost Me $9 (Why "Saving Money" Is Expensive)
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...
Implementing the insights from Alpha Arena 1.5 and Grok 4.2's strategies
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 ...
Alpha Arena - A 34% Win Rate Just Crushed the AI Trading Competition. Here's What I'm Stealing.
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...
I Thought My Crypto Agent Lost Money Overnight. Then I Found the Bug?
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...
Crypto Trading Agent - upgrade to reasoning model
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...
Crypto Trading Agent - Shipped 4 Features in One Day. Here's What I Learned.
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 ...