The Journey
Most posts here are ad hoc: what I learned building with AI that week, some philosophy, a writing lesson, something I came across.
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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...
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 - How a $13 Paper Trading Loss Made My AI Trading Bot Smarter
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...
Crypto Trading Agent - Paper Testing
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...
Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 29 Nov 2025
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...
Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 28 Nov 2025
Breaking Through the Noise: Trading Smarter in Weak Trends – Day 28 of Trader-7 Automated Trading System > TL;DR: Today, I cracked the code on trading during...
Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 27 Nov 2025
Smarter Trades: How I Taught Trader-7 to Pick the Best Instruments TL;DR: Today I wrapped up a big feature to make Trader-7’s instrument selection truly st...
Crypto Trading Agent - Progress - 24 Nov 2025
Progress Report - November 24, 2025 Project: Trader-7 Automated Trading System ✅ Completed - Multi-Exchange Price Aggregation System Deployed - Implemented 5...
Crypto Trading App
Progress Report - November 22, 2025 Project: Trader-7 (LLM-Powered Trading System) Completed - Sprint 3 Complete: Database & Position Sizing Enhancements -...
Crypto Trading Agent
Build Update - November 19, 2025 Trader-7: Analytics Dashboard Complete ✅ Shipped three major features today to help evaluate the AI trading system's decisio...