How I Coded a Trading Bot for a 60% YoY Return — And You Can Too! 🤑

Leverage the power of code and the financial markets to make a profitable source of income! A step-by-step guide on developing and testing your own trading bot

Konstantin Borimechkov
7 min readApr 30, 2024

Developing trading bots is fun and you can get hooked pretty easily — at least I did. Especially if you are interested in the financial markets, stocks, crypto, trading and all finance related stuff like that.. 😅

I’ve been developing trading bots for some time and form my experience and what I’ve seen, I can safely say that there are people making good money with these bots. 💰

To be honest, I am not even sure if one needs that much knowledge to start running bots and making money. What one needs is

  • trust & patience in the strategy
  • validation through backtests
  • consistent iteration over their knowledge and learnings
  • emotions out the window

The Strategy We Will Be Developing For

Enough rambling, lets get into the strategy for which we’ll be developing a trading bot 👇

  1. We need to detect a trend in which to trade

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Konstantin Borimechkov

Writing Code For a Living 🚀 | Software Engineer @ Tide | Writing Blogs About Python & CS