🧐 Two weeks ago I put my trading bot on testnet and promised myself I'd publish the numbers — good or ugly.
Here's the honest ledger: 3 signals, 2 fills, 1 rejection, 2 bugs, 0 disasters.
The interesting part is the rejection 👇
"If this > then that" is basically pseudocode 😄
My version runs the same logic without me watching the screen — signal condition met → order fires → SL arms → I get a Telegram ping instead of eye strain.
Two clean setups defined in advance beats forty vague ones defined in hindsight 🎯
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🧐 Two weeks ago I put my trading bot on testnet and promised myself I'd publish the numbers — good or ugly.
Here's the honest ledger: 3 signals, 2 fills, 1 rejection, 2 bugs, 0 disasters.
The interesting part is the rejection 👇
This quote is my whole build philosophy in one line 🎯
My "agent" isn't smarter than a basic strategy signal… the loop around it is what makes it survivable: webhook → freshness check → execution → notification that reports its own failures.
The model doesn't need to be a genius. The loop needs to be honest 🛡️
Watching this now… curious if he touches failure recovery at all?
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🧐 Two weeks ago I put my trading bot on testnet and promised myself I'd publish the numbers — good or ugly.
Here's the honest ledger: 3 signals, 2 fills, 1 rejection, 2 bugs, 0 disasters.
The interesting part is the rejection 👇
I just open-sourced a TradingView → Hyperliquid webhook template.
Not because the strategy is special. Because the payload is the part everyone gets wrong — and it's the difference between a bot and a bot that double-fills your orders at 3am. 🧵
Updated my open-source Hyperliquid webhook template (Pine v6) 🔧
v1.1 adds the thing no free template ships: a trailing stop that talks to your backend. ATR ratchet → modify_sl webhook → your server amends the exchange-side stop. Backtest and execution stay in sync.
Also fixed a bug where the payload preview table never rendered — two stacked causes, one a genuine TradingView quirk (barstate.islast never fires under a deep-backtest range). Documented in the code.
And the trap that cost me a manual recovery on my own testnet: exit alerts arrive "stale" BY DESIGN, because Trading View composes them at order placement but stops fill intrabar. If your backend has a freshness gate, exempt reduce_only events.
Every field explained: idempotency, staleness, auth, multi-strategy ownership. My own capital will be running soon on this exact contract.
https://t.co/qQ1zuN31ec— free, open-source, MPL-2.0.
Not Bad! Right?
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@DonAlt The no-pullback tape is my favorite kind… it's the one where the trailing stop just ratchets and never gets touched 😄
My engine's been riding this leg hands-free — strength that refuses to dip is what trend systems dream about at night 🎯
Honest answer: no idea if this plays out… and my system doesn't need to know 🎯
It caught the 64K→78K leg — signal fired, trail ratcheted, exited near the top. Zero hands. If your bull trap prints, the same engine just flips short and trails that instead.
Predictions are hard… process is repeatable 🛡️
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🧐 Two weeks ago I put my trading bot on testnet and promised myself I'd publish the numbers — good or ugly.
Here's the honest ledger: 3 signals, 2 fills, 1 rejection, 2 bugs, 0 disasters.
The interesting part is the rejection 👇
🧐 Two weeks ago I put my trading bot on testnet and promised myself I'd publish the numbers — good or ugly.
Here's the honest ledger: 3 signals, 2 fills, 1 rejection, 2 bugs, 0 disasters.
The interesting part is the rejection 👇
Testnet's whole job is making bugs cost $2.37 instead of a real account.
Two weeks in: the strategy signals are the easy half. The safety layer — dedupe, staleness gates, on-exchange stops, loud failures — is where the actual work lives. 🛠️
Architecture, not promises.
So: bug #1 was caught BY the notifications.
Bug #2 was caught by their ABSENCE.
That's why every rejection now pushes a 🟡 alert. In an automated system, silence is never allowed to mean "fine."
Still ahead before real money: a reconciliation loop (bot's belief vs exchange's truth), more organic cycles, more boring weeks.
I'll keep publishing the ledger either way — wins, bugs, and rejections alike. 🧾
(Bookmark this 🔖 — this is the checklist you'll want before trusting your own bot.)
Bug #2 (Aug 10) was sneakier. An exit fired, TradingView said "webhook delivered"… and my phone stayed silent.
That silence WAS the alarm. 🔕
The exit had arrived stale and died quietly. Position stayed safe the whole time — the SL lives on-exchange, not in my code.
Bug #1 (Aug 6): an exit got misrouted as a SHORT entry. 💀
Telegram caught it screaming:
↩️ REVERSAL BTC (was LONG)
⚠️ ZERO_SIZE BTC
Fixed within the hour. The notifications did exactly their job — loud, immediate, specific.
The part nobody explains: HOW does a regular person with a family budget “do everything humanly possible”? 🤔
My answer was building skills that pay in the off-hours… Pine Script gigs, automation work. The stack comes from the income, not the hopium.
Buy the raft… but build the paddle too 🛠️