Stop Trading Like It's 1999 — I Built an Autonomous, Vision-Capable Crypto Bot with Python 3.13

Let me tell you a story about failure.

December 2024. I'm sitting in my Wrocław apartment after an 8-hour warehouse shift. My back hurts. I've been trying to make a trading bot work for two weeks. Every night, same result: the LLM generates beautiful-sounding analysis. Confident. Articulate. Completely wrong.

"RSI is 28, oversold. BUY." Next morning: -4.2%.

The problem wasn't the LLM being stupid. It was me being lazy. I was dumping numbers into a prompt and hoping for magic — the exact thing every "LLM trading bot" tutorial on YouTube tells you to do.

I had three options: give up, buy a course, or do what nobody else was doing — read the actual research papers.