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Markets

Pips and Lots on OANDA: Sizing an Automated Forex Bot

Pips measure distance, units measure exposure, and the gap between them is where most forex bots get their risk wrong. A practical breakdown for automated trading on OANDA.

18 Eyl 2026·4 min read

01Markets

Pattern Day Trader Rule: What Stock Trading Bots Must Know

A bot that never skips a signal can burn through the pattern day trader limit in two days. Here is how the rule works and four practical ways to design an automated stock strategy around it.

7 Eyl 2026·4 min read

02Risk

Scaling Up Bot Size: How to Add Risk After Going Live

Going live at full size is the fastest way to pay tuition. Here is a staged approach to raising a bot's position size, with clear evidence gates and a rule for scaling back down.

5 Eyl 2026·4 min read

03Essentials

Connect Binance in Two Minutes: No Secrets, No Withdrawals

Binance now keeps ordinary API keys read-only unless you whitelist server IPs by hand. The self-generated key flow skips all of that: algomax creates the key pair, you paste the public half into Binance, and no secret ever changes hands. Here is the whole setup, screenshot by screenshot.

1 Eyl 2026·4 min read

04Strategies

Volatility Squeeze: Timing Breakouts When Price Coils

Compression comes before expansion, but a squeeze never tells you direction. Here is how to measure it, turn it into a two-stage bot rule, and avoid the mistakes that drain squeeze strategies.

27 Ağu 2026·4 min read