Crypto Trading For AI Trader
This is a practical trading primer for shaping and supervising the AI Trader. It assumes you are new to trading and that the bot, not you, will handle execution.
Overview
- Current bot: Binance spot trader for BTCUSDT, ETHUSDT, and BNBUSDT.
- Current style target: 24/7 spot swing/intraday lifecycle trader, not a pure scalper.
- Current hard truth: spot sells reduce inventory; they do not open shorts.
- Main lesson: profitable trading is not “buy low, sell green.” It is buying only when the setup has positive expectancy, exiting when the thesis breaks, and letting good winners survive long enough to matter.
Contents
- Core Mental Model - How to think about spot trading as inventory, thesis, and risk
- Why Never Sell Down Is Dangerous - The disposition effect and why bots need invalidation rules
- Trade Lifecycle - The entry-to-exit flow the bot should follow
- Bot Policy Rules - Concrete rules to encode in strategy, SOUL, and knowledge files
- Practice Checklist - A beginner checklist for reviewing testnet decisions