Building in public
I'm building an algo trading bot in public. Every mistake included.
Three years of trading, one year of writing code that trades for me, and a long list of expensive lessons. I write down what works, what broke, and what it cost me — so you can skip a few of my mistakes.
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One email a week: what I built, what broke, and the lesson I'd pay money to have learned earlier.
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The ₹40,000 bug I shipped on a Friday
A missing check turned one rejected order into eleven retries in nine seconds. The code path, the logs, and the guard that now makes it impossible.
Best practicesNine checks before your bot touches real money
The pre-live checklist I wish someone had handed me: paper-live parity, kill switches, config hashes, and the failure I only caught on the eighth check.
The journeyMonth 6: the strategy worked, the plumbing didn't
Backtests looked fine, live results didn't match, and the gap had nothing to do with the strategy. What I found when I replayed real order books.
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The engineering behind a live algorithmic trading system in India: the build, the mistakes, what they cost, and how the rules actually work. No tips, no calls, no returns — read the about page for exactly what I do and don't publish.