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Circular diagram of a trading bot loop moving from candle data to rule checks, order placement, and position management

Essentials

How Trading Bots Work: From Candle Close to Filled Order

Every trading bot runs the same four-step loop: read new data, check the rules, send an order, manage the position. Here is what happens at each step and where beginners usually get tripped up.

9 nov 2026·4 min read

01Essentials

Strategy Hopping: Why Chasing the Hottest Bot Backfires

Dropping a bot during a rough patch and switching to last month's winner feels like active management. More often it means you eat each strategy's worst phase and miss its recovery.

3 nov 2026·4 min read

02Essentials

Trading Bot Health Check: Quiet Market or Silent Failure?

No alerts can mean your strategy is patiently waiting, or that something broke hours ago. Here is how to tell the difference fast, and how to set up a baseline so silence stops being a guessing game.

29 oct 2026·4 min read

03Markets

Multi-Market Trading: Running One Strategy on Three Venues

A strategy idea can travel across crypto, stocks, and forex, but its numbers usually cannot. Here is what to keep, what to adapt, and how to test before running one strategy on several venues.

25 oct 2026·4 min read

04Risk

Equity Curve Stops: When Pausing a Bot Helps or Hurts

Pausing a bot after a drawdown feels like discipline, but it is really a second strategy layered on top of your first. Here is when equity curve stops protect capital and when they cut you off right before the recovery.

13 oct 2026·4 min read