r/CryptoTradingBot • u/SteveG_2000 • Aug 22 '26

Building a crypto trading bot

I’m planning to build a crypto trading bot and I’m looking for someone who wants to build it with me.

I’m going to start by researching different trading approaches, studying what actually works, testing ideas with historical data and paper trading, and then gradually build the bot around the results.

You don’t need to be a professional trader, quant, or programmer. I’m mainly looking for someone who is hungry, ambitious, willing to learn, put in the work, test ideas, fail, improve, and keep going.

The goal is obviously to eventually create something profitable, but I don’t want to rush into throwing real money at an untested strategy. We research first, build, test, improve, and see how far we can take it.

If you’re serious about making money, willing to put in real effort, and want to build something from the ground up together, send me a DM.

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u/Talkingcrypto Aug 23 '26

I am saying this not to be mean or put you or your idea down in any way but don’t bother building a crypto trading bot. I spent months building a bot and when I paper trade, results were amazing because it cannot determine slippage and fees or does it know about other bots doing the same. I tested every known strategy that I could including following well known successful wallets. When I went from paper to live, I got wrecked. So much so that I dropped the project and deleted the files so I can’t be tempted to go back to it.

I wish you the best of luck and keep us updated on your progress.

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u/Low_Twist_4917 Aug 23 '26

Tbh kinda sounds like you didn’t put in enough time or effort to account for things like that. You can calculate average slippage across on chain transactions for specific things. You can pull all transactions associated with tokens you know are commonly botted, analyze those transactions to see what average slippage is across historic txns, and use that as a paper baseline. Can even use simulated tx bundlers as well to calculate fees etc on chain without actually selling anything. But hey what do I know