The Setup
Here's the thing about building a trading bot from scratch: you spend so much time making it work that you forget to think about what happens when it works too well.
We had three grid bots running. BTC, SOL, and BONK — each with a slice of our $500 paper trading budget. The strategy was simple: when the price drops, buy a little. When it goes back up, sell for a small profit. Repeat forever. Grid trading, textbook stuff.
The bots launched. They started buying. The Telegram alerts rolled in — green checkmarks, prices, amounts. Everything looked exactly like it was supposed to.
For about four days.
