I audited 26 risk controls in my trading bot: 7 could never fire
The 15% drawdown halt was wired into two live code paths and could never fire. So I checked all 26 risk controls. Seven were dead. A control you cannot…
•8 min read
Trader-7
An LLM trading system I run for myself on paper money. Built in public, code private. Not a product.
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Status:Live
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Build Journey Posts
Same system, three different traders
Same code, same market, three time periods. One made $964, one lost $217, one's up $321. The difference wasn't the algorithm.
•4 min read
Building David, Not a Smaller Goliath
How a trading agent reveals the game retail can actually win — by playing where the funds can't or won't go, and learning to love the play.
•13 min read
I trade three coins, not fifteen
Coinbase lists 15 perp markets. Most alts are leveraged BTC with noise. The case for staying with three, and the one coin I'd seriously paper-test.
•4 min read
Now the Real Data Starts
Seven months of building bought me a system that finally tells the truth about itself. The data those seven months produced is mostly unreadable. The clock just started, and not a moment too soon.
•9 min read
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