I spent a month building trading bots with AI.
Here's the honest scorecard.
No signals and no "100x" here. I'm testing trading bots properly and posting the results, losers included.
What I've got running:
• A crypto trend bot on Binance futures, real money: −5.6% so far
• An index and gold bot, real money: +2.75%
• 26 setups on demo accounts, plus 22 variations of my own bot on paper
• Dozens of strategy ideas backtested with strict rules. Most failed.
The big experiment: AI price forecasting
I took Kronos, an open-source AI model trained on millions of price charts, and fine-tuned it on 150 coins using rented GPUs (about $90).
Then I tested it on 78 days it had never seen.
✅ It ranked coins better than chance. Its picks beat the average, consistently, for up to a week.
❌ It still couldn't make money. The edge was smaller than trading fees, and the biggest moves (the ones that actually pay) were the ones it missed.
What I learned:
A model can be "right" and still lose you money. Fees eat small edges alive.
If a backtest looks amazing, assume you've made a mistake until proven otherwise.
Most "AI trading bot" claims you see online wouldn't survive a month of honest testing.
Coming next: a bigger test across 420 days of different markets, and I'll post the result either way.
Follow if you want the real numbers, not the screenshots.
Not financial advice. I'm sharing my own testing, wins and losses.
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