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tradeagent

A crypto trading bot for perpetual futures — modular signal strategies behind one risk gate, from paper to live and back.

survey position
N 52.08° ·E 05.12°
elevation
3,140 m
field status
ongoing
role
Builder
stack
Python · SQLite · Next.js (mission control)
year
2026
links
context

A bot that trades is easy to demo and hard to trust. The gap is rarely the signal; it is the absence of risk control around it.

tradeagent is built the other way round — the guardrails come first, the strategies plug in behind them.

approach

Each signal layer is a separate module with its own evaluate step; a combiner weighs them into one call. Position, drawdown, and daily-loss limits sit in front of every order, and a single flag separates paper from live — the risk layer never moves.

A mission-control dashboard watches it run: signals, trades, and the reasons behind both.

paper → live

one flag changes the venue, not the code — the risk layer holds

result

Three strategies run paper-first; one has traded live and was wound down on its own post-mortem — the limits held and the records kept.

It behaves like infrastructure, not a script.

field readings
modulessignals · execution · risk
venuespaper / live
guardrailsposition · drawdown · daily loss
recordevery signal and trade logged