The crypto trading bot

The pieces, in reading order

1. Part 1

   Thinking of buying a crypto trading bot? One year, 268 trades and $722 of profit say read this first

   A year of an AI picking crypto trades, 268 of them on paper, made $722 and all of it in one crash. Fees, the exchange you can legally use and the country you live in decided more than the strategy. The five numbers to get before you build or buy a bot, and where it can't be run.

2. Part 2

   Can a crypto trading bot pay your bills? Mine would need at least $1 million, and a bad year would take $300,000

   A crypto bot making $450 a year on $5,000 looks like it only needs more money to become an income. If mine passes its test, $1 million would expect $90,000 in a normal year and plan for losing $300,000 in a bad one. So far it hasn't passed. The three-step test to run before you scale any bot.

3. Part 3

   Is your AI trading bot ready for your money? Mine failed the rules I'd set it on all 185 trades it proposed in September, so I didn't fund it

   After a year of building, my AI crypto bot was due $5,000 of real money on 1 October. It got none: in the fortnight before launch it produced 661 trade signals and the rules I'd written blocked every one. The five-line go/no-go test that said no, with the sums, so you can run it on any bot before your money goes in.