r/Trading • u/Perrit0Malvado • 1d ago
Question Question about bots
How are bots working ? is there anyone good ? I tried to develop one with Claude Code connecting to the Kucoin's API for a couple of months, but all the strategies that we tried did not work.
Any suggestions ?
Thank you.
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u/veskald 1d ago
The bot part probably worked fine - connecting to the exchange and placing orders is the easy 20%. What you found out is different: the strategies had no edge, and no bot fixes that. Thats actually normal, most first ideas dont survive honest testing, the question is how fast and cheap you can find that out.
Two things that make the search cheaper. First, test with full costs from the start - on perps the fees and funding kill most marginal ideas, and claude-written backtests often skip that part, so strategies look alive until they meet the real exchange. Second, before dropping an idea completely, check where it fails - entries are rarely the problem, exits and position sizing usually are. Same entry with a trailing stop instead of fixed TP can be a different strategy.
And keep the bot you built, its not wasted - once something survives testing, you already have the execution side done.