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Trader-7
Trader-7
#trader7
Autonomous cryptocurrency trading system powered by multiple LLMs (DeepSeek, Claude) with comprehensive risk management. Hybrid mode trading spot and perpetual futures on Coinbase. Targeting 33-47% annual returns with 35-45% win rate and 3:1 risk/reward ratio. Currently live in paper trading mode on Railway.
A bug locked my trading bot for 30 hours. Fixed in 15 lines.
Then I wanted to add protection. Spent an hour analysing it.
Expected value: negative. So I didn't build it.
Getting better at saying no.
Full: jamiewatters.work/journey/tra…
#trader7 #buildinpublic
A bug locked my trading bot for 30 hours. Fixed in 15 lines.
Then I wanted to add protection. Spent an hour analysing it.
Expected value: negative. So I didn't build it.
Sometimes the best code is the code you don't write.
#trader7 #buildinpublic
Day 69: 8 hours monitoring. 0 trades (correct), 131 dollars profit, validator blocked 1 bad trade. The best trades are the ones you do not take. #trader7
4 sprints today on #trader7: (1) Fixed Claude 4.5→4.6 upgrade breaking JSON, (2) Expanded context to 2 weeks — immediately spotted 9 losing trades pattern, (3) Found stale prompt suppressing good trades, (4) Added correlation cap. All 3 shorts profitable. Now monitoring.
Day 66: Emergency brake deployed a week ago, never fired. Two bugs silently disabled it. Also found: cooldown evaporates on deploy, dead code. #trader7
Trader-7: Left agent trading for 3 days post-Sprint 103. Performance fell off a cliff — need heavy lifting to find the gold buried under the debris. #trader7
Lost $97 from over-deploying after regime flip. Fixed with Sprint 101. +5.9% over 80 trades. #trader7
+10% in 80h with the trading bot. Found a silent bug costing $34/trade. 77% of losses from one pattern. Fix deployed. #trader7 #buildinpublic
Trader-7 hit steady state. First fully autonomous 24-hour session. +$91 profit, zero losses, Sharpe ratio crossed 2.02. Five consecutive trailing stop captures. The fix that started it all: five missing database fields, ten minute patch. Sometimes the hardest bugs are the silent ones. #trader7
Validated 26 hours of autonomous trading - first complete trailing stop lifecycle working end-to-end. System correctly sat out a directionless market. +$90.73 (+3.0%) paper P&L. #trader7