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I develop trading bots for crypto exchanges. In this blog, I’ll share my experience: screeners, bots, algorithms
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⚡️ Market Median: where crypto usually starts to react Market Median is not a BTC chart and not an average market price. It shows where a broad set of cryptocurrencies sits inside their own 1000-candle regression channels on the 30m timeframe, then compresses that into one median reading.
🟢 −10% zone When the median moves toward −10%, many coins are already trading near the lower parts of their own channels. That is where rebounds tend to appear more often: forced sellers are already washed out, shorts start closing, and weak hands stop pressing the move. Still, no blind entries. A lower-zone reading needs confirmation: reaction from the level, local range hold, and reclaim above the nearest structure.
🔴 +10% zone When the median moves toward +10%, many coins are already stretched near the upper parts of their own channels. That is where cooling often starts: profit-taking, failed continuation, late buyers getting trapped, and momentum losing breadth. No need to guess the top. Wait for weakness, failed impulse, and loss of market support.
📊 The working logic Near −10% — look for rebound and long scenarios after confirmation. Near +10% — look for rejection and reversal scenarios after confirmation. Between the zones — less aggression, more filters.
The value is not in one candle. The value is in seeing where the whole crypto market sits relative to its own regression structure. Most traders watch one chart. Market Median shows when the broader market is already stretched too far. Market Median is available for free on Crypto Resources.
Can You Become an Algo Trader From Scratch Without Coding?
Yes. But not in the “find a magic bot, switch it on, and forget about it” sense. You do not need to write algorithms yourself. You need to run them properly. An algo trader is not necessarily a programmer. An algo trader is the person who: chooses which algorithms to runsets risk limitsdecides what to enable, what to disable, and where to allocate capital The code, signals, webhooks, and execution can already be handled by exchanges, platforms, and ready-made services. There are usually three roles in algo trading: Developer — writes the code and builds the strategyOperator — runs bots, adjusts risk, monitors reportsInvestor — provides capital and decides where it goes If you are starting from zero, you can enter as an operator or investor. You do not need to build your own engine in Python. There are several layers of automation. 1. Exchange bots and boxed solutions Many exchanges already offer basic automation: DCA bots, grid bots, simple trend systems, trailing logic, and partial exits. 2. TradingView + alerts + webhooks You set up indicators or strategies, create alerts, and let those alerts trigger execution on the exchange through a bot. That is already a real algo stack, even if you have never written a line of code. 3. Automating external signals Some traders automate signals that used to be executed manually. A Telegram signal appears, and the system opens the same small position every time. Technically, that is still algo trading. You are following a rule set, not your mood. But “no coding” does not mean “no understanding.” You still need a minimum base: risk managementbasic strategy typesAPI key safetyperformance stats and drawdown logic Without that, any bot turns into a slightly more complicated Telegram signal: while conditions are favorable, everything looks easy; once drawdown starts, panic takes over. A workable path into algo trading looks like this: start with ready-made strategies and demolearn simple automationtest with small sizebuild a portfolio of algorithms instead of relying on one setup This is where ready-made platforms become useful. On crypto resource, you do not need to code. You choose strategies, define risk, connect through API without withdrawal rights, and manage the process as an operator. So yes, you can enter algo trading from zero, and you can do it without programming. Not because the work disappears. Because the work shifts from writing code to selecting systems, controlling risk, and managing execution. #Sign
📉 $1.1B Flush Is Over — But the Recovery Is Still Uneven Yesterday’s liquidation shock has cooled fast.
BTC is holding near $82.7K, while 24h liquidations dropped to just $156.3M.
💥 Liquidations • #Longs : $71.3M • #Shorts : $85M • Fear & Greed: 64 — Greed Shorts are now taking slightly more damage, but the broader market still isn’t recovering evenly.
📊 Inside the market #BTC : ~$82,700 #ETH : ~$2,494 TOP-10: $BNB +0.69% / HYPE -1.72% TOP-100: WLD +13.19% / RAY -7.05% That spread says plenty: leverage normalized, but altcoins are still trading like separate markets.
🔹 BTC and ETH #etf flows are diverging Bitcoin spot ETFs took in $21.1M after losing $729M over the previous two sessions. Ethereum ETFs saw another $56.1M outflow, extending the streak to nine trading days. 🔹 Ledger is investigating reports of an $86M theft The cases involve wallets bought through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis. Ledger suspended reseller sales while the cause and total losses remain unconfirmed. 🔹 Market Median caught the correction extreme Crypto Resources’ Market Median hit around -12% at the selloff low. The broader market has since rebounded roughly 10%.
🚀 Market structure The panic phase cooled quickly. Liquidations collapsed from $1.1B to $156M, BTC held near $83K, and shorts are now taking slightly more damage.
But with $WLD +13% while $RAY is -7%, this still looks like selective rotation — not a broad altcoin recovery.
The bounce from the −12% zone continues: RegDev recovered from −5.45% to −2.24%, while breadth improved from 22.46% to 46.56%. RSI is already above 56.
📈 Buyers have recovered a lot of ground, but there is no broad long setup yet. Breadth is still below 50% and RegDev remains negative. Overbought is 6.58%, oversold just 0.33%.
Trade plan: longs get stronger above 50% breadth with RegDev continuing toward zero. Shorts need RSI below 50 and breadth weakening again.
⚠️ Common mistake: chasing the rebound before breadth confirms it.
Yesterday evening, near the peak of the selloff, we flagged Market Median around −12% for local longs. The bounce came quickly: RegDev has already recovered to −5.45%.
📈 The local long worked, but there is no broad reversal yet. Only 22.46% of coins are above SMA200, so market structure remains weak.
Trade plan: don’t chase longs after the bounce. A broader long setup needs breadth back above 50%.
⚠️ Common mistake: treating a bounce from an extreme Median reading as a full market reversal.
BTC bounced from $80.3K and is back near $82.4K, but the broader market took a much harder hit.
💥 $1.10B liquidated in 24h • Longs: $943.9M • Shorts: $153.0M • Fear & Greed: 59, down from 64 That is a heavy leverage reset. Longs absorbed almost the entire move, while sentiment is still sitting in Greed.
📊 Market pulse BTC: $82,393 ETH: $2,493 TOP-10: BTC -0.44% / $SOL -4.29% TOP-100: $STRK +38.08% / $NEAR -12.00% BTC held up better than most alts, but the spread underneath is huge. STRK +38% against a broad selloff says money is still rotating into isolated names rather than returning across the market.
🔹 #thailand approved BTC and ETH ETFs New rules take effect October 16, opening access to locally listed crypto ETFs. 🔹 Securitize is bringing U.S. stocks to Solana Tokenized Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and Microsoft shares will use 1:1 backing, USDC settlement and Jump Trading liquidity. 🔹 NFL challenges Kalshi’s sports markets The NFL and 39 U.S. states backed New Jersey’s push for Supreme Court review of prediction-market regulation.
🚀 Market structure This was a serious long flush, but not full capitulation. #fear & #greed is still at 59, #BTC is holding better than alts, and individual tokens are still producing extreme moves. Leverage got cleaned. The alt market still hasn’t recovered as a whole.
During the latest long squeeze, with roughly $500M in longs liquidated, Market Median dropped to −9.8% — almost exactly our first accumulation zone. It has already bounced back to −6.71%.
📉 Trade plan: scale into longs from −10%, with the next zone at −15%. After the squeeze, don’t chase either the drop or the rebound.
⚠️ Common mistake: buying too early just because the market has already fallen hard.
💥 87% of Liquidations Hit Longs — But This Still Doesn’t Look Like Capitulation
#BTC is back near $82.3K, ETH around $2.55K, and leverage just took a heavy reset. 💥 $405M liquidated in 24h • #Longs : $351.7M • #Shorts : $53.5M • Fear & Greed: 64, down from 71
That split matters. Almost the entire liquidation hit landed on longs, but sentiment is still sitting in Greed. So far, this looks more like a leverage flush than full market capitulation.
📊 Inside the market TOP-10: TRX +0.91% / $ZEC -4.54% TOP-100: $JUP +14.15% / $SKY -8.69% The broader tape is weak, but individual alts are still catching aggressive flows. That’s not panic across the board.
🔹 #Circle is pushing stablecoins deeper into corporate payments USDC and EURC are being integrated into enterprise payment infrastructure through an SAP-backed partner. 🔹 Vitalik #Buterin backed the idea of a crypto “bunker mode” The concern is long-term: advances in AI and computing could eventually put pressure on ECDSA cryptography. No emergency wallet migration is being advised. 🔹 Hunter Biden addressed the $LAPTOP collapse He denied a rug pull and said 300M founder tokens remain untouched, while acknowledging market makers made most of the money around the launch.
🚀 Market structure Longs got cleaned hard, but sentiment hasn’t broken with them. That’s the key imbalance now: positioning cooled much faster than psychology.
Yesterday, longs needed RSI above 50 and RegDev moving higher. Instead, RSI fell from 49.64 to 43.27, breadth from 68.82% to 46.86%, while RegDev dropped from −2.95% to −4.19%.
📉 Sellers have the edge again. RSI is already below 45, and most coins are back under SMA200. Oversold is still only 3.77%, so the market is not stretched yet.
Trade plan: selective shorts after bounces in weak coins. Longs need RSI back above 50, breadth above 50%, and RegDev turning higher.
⚠️ Common mistake: keeping a long bias after both breadth and RSI have already broken down.
⚠️ BTC Flat, Greed Rising — Longs Still Took the Hit
BTC and ETH barely moved overnight, but leverage didn’t get the same quiet session. 💥 $180.3M liquidated • Longs: $110.4M • Shorts: $69.9M • Fear & Greed: 73 — Greed That’s the main imbalance this morning: price is flat, but longs still absorbed most of the damage while sentiment keeps heating up.
📊 Market pulse BTC: ~$85.6K ETH: ~$2,703 TOP-10: $HYPE +3.65% / BNB -1.20% TOP-100: $ZRO +3.65% / $SKY -9.03% The tape is still selective rather than broad.
🔹 Rain wants a U.S. trust bank The #stablecoin infrastructure firm applied to launch Rain National Trust Bank in New York. If approved, it could custody digital assets and dollars, manage reserves, and handle stablecoin issuance/redemptions. 🔹 More than $1B linked to #Lazarus laundering #ZachXBT says a Chinese criminal syndicate moved over $1B tied to Lazarus activity, including funds connected to the Bybit hack. 🔹 FinCEN dropped two proposed crypto rules The agency withdrew proposals targeting mixers and self-custody wallets, citing the risk of heavy reporting burdens and chilling legitimate activity.
🚀 Market structure Majors are flat, but positioning is not neutral. #Longs still took the larger hit, greed climbed to 73, and breadth remains weak.
That’s not a clean risk-on setup — #sentiment is running hotter than the market underneath.
Market breadth has recovered sharply: 68.82% of coins are now above SMA200, RegDev improved to −2.95%, and RSI is almost back at 50.
📊 Structure is stronger, but the broad long setup is not confirmed yet. Breadth is already high, while RSI remains below 50 and RegDev is still negative. Overbought is 2.89%, oversold 2.51%.
Trade plan: longs need RSI above 50 and RegDev continuing higher. Shorts get more interesting if breadth starts fading again and RSI drops below 45.
⚠️ Common mistake: buying on strong breadth alone before RSI and RegDev confirm continuation.
⚡ #BTC Squeezed Shorts Near $87K — But the Market Still Isn’t Broad
BTC pushed to $86,972, forcing a clean short squeeze before slipping back toward $85.6K. 💥 $152.2M liquidated • #shorts : $113.6M • #Longs : $38.5M The imbalance is obvious: shorts took almost 3x more damage. But there’s a catch — majors barely followed.
📊 Market pulse BTC: ~$85.6K ETH: ~$2,705 Fear & Greed: 70 — Greed TOP-10: $HYPE +0.99% / TRX -0.12% TOP-100: $FET +16.39% / $NIGHT -8.55% BTC moved, but the broader market stayed selective. That’s not a clean risk-on expansion yet — it’s a squeeze with fragmented rotation underneath.
🔹 OKX + NYSE parent are pushing tokenized stocks A filing targets a 24/7 venue with 60+ U.S. #stocks , with liquidity planned through Uniswap v4 on XLayer. 🔹 Zcash NU7 is live on testnet Target block time drops from 75s to 25s, with mainnet aimed for November 5. ZEC itself is still -15.83% on the week.
🚀 Market structure Shorts got flushed, but breadth didn’t really improve. BTC can keep grinding higher, but with Fear & Greed at 70 and majors still lagging, #sentiment is heating up faster than the market underneath.
That usually means one thing: watch breadth, not just BTC.
BTC briefly pushed above $87K after weak U.S. jobs data, then gave the entire move back toward $84.6K.
The macro impulse was clear: • Payrolls: 29K vs ~90K expected • Unemployment: 4.2% • July/August revised down by 60K
That was enough to trigger the breakout — not enough to hold it. 💥 $426.7M liquidated in 24h • Longs: $320.4M • Shorts: $106.3M • Fear & Greed: 67 — #greed Long liquidations were roughly 3x larger than shorts. The market bought the soft macro first, then punished traders who chased the move.
📊 Inside the market BTC: ~$84,600 ETH: ~$2,680 TOP-10: TRX +0.34% / $ZEC -4.55% TOP-100: $NIGHT +27.86% / $LIT -10.92% NIGHT at +28% while the broader tape stays weak is another reminder that altcoin rotation is still very selective.
🔹 #Blast is shutting down after TVL collapsed from above $2B to around $32M. Normal withdrawals remain available until October 26. 🔹 3x BTC and ETH #ETFs moved another step forward with Cboe BZX approved to list the products. Exposure uses futures with daily leverage resets.
🚀 Market structure Soft macro helped #BTC break higher, but buyers couldn’t defend the breakout. Leverage got flushed hard on the long side, while individual alts are still catching isolated flows.
That’s not broad risk-on yet. It’s a fragile BTC structure with aggressive rotation underneath.
📊 The market remains weak, but there is no clean broad short setup yet. Most coins are below SMA200, RSI is still under 50, and RegDev remains deeply negative. Overbought is 2.57%, oversold 2.00% — no extremes here.
Trade plan: shorts after weak bounces if RSI drops below 45 and breadth keeps fading. Longs need RSI back above 50, breadth above 50%, and RegDev turning higher.
⚠️ Common mistake: treating a local bounce as a market reversal while breadth remains below 50% and RegDev stays deeply negative.
⚡ BTC Hits $86.7K — #Shorts Take the Damage, #Alts Still Split BTC pushed to $86.7K, with shorts taking most of the liquidation hit.
💥 $317.7M #liquidated in 24h • Longs: $110.4M • Shorts: $207.3M • Fear & Greed: 72 — Greed
That is a much cleaner squeeze profile than yesterday: price moved higher and short positioning paid for it. But the broader market still isn’t moving as one.
📊 Inside the tape BTC: ~$86,688 ETH: ~$2,742 TOP-10: $BTC +3.48% / $ZEC -4.82% TOP-100: $SKY +7.75% / Quant -13.57% BTC is strong, while the spread inside altcoins remains huge. That is still selective risk-on, not a broad market expansion.
🔹 Bitcoin Lightning nodes were urged to upgrade after attacks were reported against outdated Core Lightning versions. 🔹 #Ethereum launched zkAPI on mainnet, enabling private payments for AI/API access through zero-knowledge proofs. 🔹 #Near Intents says it identified the attacker behind the $3.8M October 1 exploit and gave them 48 hours to return the funds.
🚀 Market structure BTC is pressing the upper end of the daily range and shorts are being squeezed out.
The part I’d watch now is breadth. If BTC keeps climbing while TOP-100 dispersion stays this wide, the move is still concentrated rather than a full-market risk-on phase.
Yesterday, longs needed breadth above 50% and RegDev improving. Both happened: breadth jumped from 31.74% to 58.65%, RSI rose from 51.56 to 54.36, and RegDev improved from −3.12% to −2.79%.
📈 A local long setup is back. Most coins are now above SMA200 and RSI is firmly above 50. RegDev is still negative, so this is not a strong broad impulse yet.
Trade plan: selective longs on pullbacks while RSI stays above 50 and breadth holds above 50%. The setup strengthens if RegDev keeps recovering toward zero.
⚠️ Common mistake: chasing the rebound right after breadth expands instead of waiting for a clean pullback.
Yesterday’s #BitcoinClears$85200 BTC spike was almost pure macro. Softer inflation opened the door for risk-on: PCE came in at 3.4% YoY vs 3.7% expected, core #PCE at 3.0% vs 3.3%. BTC reacted fast and pushed above $85K. Then the other side of the macro picture hit. Strong GDP, jobs and spending data pushed the 10Y #Treasury yield toward 5.30%. That keeps “higher for longer” risk alive — and BTC gave back most of the move.
📊 Where the market sits now BTC: ~$83,681 ETH: ~$2,695 Liquidations: $268M Longs: $131.8M Shorts: $136.6M Fear & Greed: 74 — Greed The liquidation split is almost perfectly balanced. That fits the price action: first the breakout squeezed one side, then the reversal hit the other.
🔥 #altcoins still aren’t moving as one market TOP-10: $HYPE +3.36% / SOL -0.87% TOP-100: $STX +23.57% / $ZRO -6.83% That’s not broad risk-on. It’s selective rotation.
#MetaMask also started withdrawing affected ETH staking validators after a security incident, while saying there is no immediate threat to wallets.
The setup now is pretty clear: cooler inflation helps crypto, but 5.3% Treasury yields are still strong enough to cap follow-through. BTC needs more than one soft inflation print. It needs yields to stop fighting the move.
Yesterday the market remained weak with breadth at just 20.05%. Today RSI rose from 49.86 to 51.56, breadth recovered to 31.74%, and RegDev improved from −3.93% to −3.12%.
📊 The bounce continues, but there is still no broad long setup. RSI is back above 50, but nearly 70% of coins remain below SMA200 and RegDev is still negative. Oversold has dropped to 0.30%.
Trade plan: longs get more interesting if breadth recovers above 50% and RegDev keeps improving. Shorts return if RSI loses 50 and breadth starts weakening again.
⚠️ Common mistake: treating RSI above 50 as a full-market reversal while breadth is still near 32%.