What we found out about trading bots.
Tested on real prices, with the sources listed.
- How to pick the best crypto trading bot: 8 compared on price and limitsEight crypto bot platforms compared on free options, monthly price and what each plan limits. Prices checked November 2026, and how to choose.
- Binance trading bots: how they connect and how to set one up safelyHow a trading bot connects to Binance, which API key settings to use, what a bot can and can’t do with your account, and what to check before you start.
- How to backtest a crypto strategy without fooling yourselfA backtest can show a profit that never existed. How to include fees and slippage, spot overfitting, split your data and read the result against holding.
- Why paper trading results don’t match live resultsPaper trading fills orders that a real market might not. The reasons live results come out worse, and how to measure the gap before you add money.
- How to run a Pine Script strategy as a live botPine Script can’t place orders on an exchange by itself. The three ways to take a strategy live, and what to check in your script first.
- We tested 12 simple crypto bot setups against holding. None won.Three common rules on BTC, ETH, SOL and BNB, tested on real Binance prices with fees. All 12 made less than holding the coin, and six lost money.
- What is a crypto trading bot?A crypto trading bot places orders on your exchange when rules you set are met. How it connects, the main types, what it costs and what it can’t do.
- What is a DCA bot? How it averages down, and when that hurtsA DCA bot buys more as the price falls and sells at a target above your average. A worked example, the settings that matter and how it loses money.
- What is a grid bot? How it makes money, and what breaks itA grid bot buys and sells at set levels inside a price range. How profit per grid is worked out, why fees decide it, and what breaks it.
- Why a TradingView alert doesn't always become a tradeAn alert has to leave TradingView as a webhook, reach another service within three seconds and be accepted by your exchange. Here is where it breaks.
- Can a trading bot withdraw your crypto?Only if its API key has withdrawal permission. What a key can do, what happened in the 3Commas leak, and how to set up a key safely.
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