The Quest Begins (The "Why")
Honestly, I was tired of staring at candlestick charts while my coffee went cold. I’d spend hours trying to spot a breakout, only to miss the move by a few seconds because I was busy refilling my mug. Sound familiar? The market never sleeps, and neither did my FOMO. I realized I needed a tireless sidekick—something that could watch the charts 24/7, execute trades when my strategy said “go,” and let me actually enjoy life outside the screen.
That’s when the idea of a trading bot clicked. Not some black‑box hedge‑fund monster, but a simple, transparent script I could tweak, understand, and, most importantly, trust. If I could teach a bot to follow my rules, I’d free up mental bandwidth for learning new strategies, reading whitepapers, or just playing a game without guilt. The quest was set: build a bot that buys low, sells high, and logs everything so I could learn from its successes (and its inevitable face‑plants).
The Revelation (The Insight)
The magic wasn’t in some exotic AI; it was in the discipline of rules. My strategy boiled down to three simple conditions:
