Every trader should use this website. You can access 797,000 trading strategies for free. Every one comes with the profit factor, drawdown, trade count and win rate. Search, copy the code and backtest the strategies with Claude. The website is mcp-api.trader.dev/browse.

Claude Opus 5.5 just took 8 wins in a row. It's a better trader than most the "gurus" you look up to.

I gave Claude Opus 5.5 two days and a Bybit account to bet on crypto for me. It placed 21 bets on BTC and ETH, 15 minute up or down, and finished up $201.60. +19.3% on the money staked. Here's how you can do the same: Step 1: Get Claude Claude desktop at claude.ai/download, then open Claude Code. Type /model and pick Opus 5.5. Step 2: Connect your exchange On bybit.com create an API key and secret, trading access only, never withdrawals. Use a sub account with only what you're willing to lose on an experiment. Step 3: Give Claude the connection Go to trigger.trade, open the skills link, paste the install instructions to Claude with "take me through the onboarding, I want to connect my Bybit account". Hand over the keys when it asks, they're encrypted on your machine. Step 4: Check it can see the account "Check my balance on Bybit" Step 5: Set the rules and let it go "You're trading Bybit Odds, 15 minute up or down on BTC and ETH. The payout is 1.80x so you need to win 55.56% of the time to break even, and a draw loses. Stake no more than [X] per bet. Explain your reasoning for every bet and log the result. You have 24 hours" Step 6: Read the ledger Opus 5.5 won 553.60 and lost 352.00 across 21 bets. You need to win 56 times out of 100 here just to stay flat, so this is stacked against you before you start. 21 bets proves nothing and I'd bin a strategy with that few trades. I ran it to see if the model understood the odds. It stayed ahead of break-even for 21 bets, which is 300 short of meaning anything.

Basic AI Trading Rules: - 100 trades minimum for backtest - Max drawdown under 35% - Profit factor above 1.1 - Has to beat buy and hold - No trailing stops - 3 months forward testing before real money - 1 to 3% collateral per position - 5x leverage maximum What am I missing?

Running out of trading strategies? Here are 5 free places to find profitable ones. 1: TradingView community scripts On tradingview.com open any chart, click Indicators, then Community Scripts. Anything with an open padlock shows its code, paste it into Claude and say "backtest this on my pair, fees on, full history". Plenty of the strategies I run started as somebody else's public script. 2: Stonehill Forex stonehillforex.com, home of the NNFX method and the structure behind everything I build. 1 trend indicator, 2 confirmations, 1 volatility filter, ATR bands for the stop. Their free indicator library is worth an afternoon on its own. 3: QuantConnect quantconnect.com has free strategies with the code included. Hand the code to Claude and ask it to translate to Pine Script and backtest it. 4: Quantpedia quantpedia.com has academic trading research written up as plain strategy descriptions, free tier available. Describe the idea to Claude and let it build the rules. 5: YouTube I found my main strategy in a video once. Describe any guru's rules to Claude and find out whether they were right. Ideas are everywhere, the testing is the part that makes one yours.

One member left us a 5 star review this week. You can copy every prompt I publish and still have no idea why strategies fail. The learning happens when you run your own backtest, watch it fall apart and go find out why. That's what turns prompts into a system you understand.

BREAKING: YOU CAN BUILD AN AI TRADING BOT THAT TRADES 1 HOUR PER DAY WITH OPUS 5.5. Here's How: Step 1: Get Claude Claude desktop at claude.ai/download, open Claude Code. Type /model and pick Opus 5.5. Step 2: Give it a backtesting engine Set up free account at tradingkit.com, click My Account, copy the line of code. Paste it in and say "hey there buddy, could you install this globally for me". Copy your authorisation code from the same page and paste that in too. Step 3: Find the hour that pays best Use this prompt: "Backtest this strategy on BTCUSDT 1 hour, fees on, full history. Then break the results down by hour of the day. Show me profit, trade count and win rate for each hour" One or two hours will be carrying the whole thing. Step 4: Build the bot around that hour Now use this prompt: "Rebuild this so it only takes trades during [that hour]. Backtest the new version against the original and show both" Fewer trades is expected, watch profit factor and drawdown. Step 5: Check it isn't luck "Run the same hour filter on 3 other pairs and on the years before 2023" A real time pattern shows up across pairs, a fluke only shows on the one you tuned. Step 6: Verify on TradingView Paste the code into the Pine Editor on tradingview.com, add to chart, check the numbers match. Step 7: Forward test 3 months before real money Building it is the easy part, making sure the backtest aligns with the forward test is where most strategies fall short. Always forward test.

GPT-6 built me 184 trading strategies and every single one was on the 1 hour chart. Nobody told it to, it just defaulted there. AI models learn from the internet, so they drift towards whatever the internet trades most. That's how thousands of people end up with the same strategy, all chasing the same trades. The fix is telling it where to look. Name the timeframe, name the pair and ban the indicators you've seen a hundred times. I run strategies on the 45 minute and the 37 minute for exactly this reason. Your AI will build what's popular unless you give it a reason to build something else.

AI out-built 9,000 traders in 2 months. My community and I manually backtested 2,000 strategies over 5 years. My AI agents have built 2,500 in 2 months. There's no need to trade manually anymore. The one job left is deciding which strategies deserve real money while AI automates the rest. That job is where the money is made.

Claude Opus 5 is the best model to build a trading bot with. It topped my week-long test with 98 strategies worth forward testing. Same token use per strategy as Fable 5.1 at half the price. Here's how to build a trading bot with Opus: Step 1: Get Claude Download Claude desktop at claude.ai/download, open Claude Code. Type /model and pick Opus 5. Step 2: Give it a backtesting engine Set up free account at tradingkit.com, click My Account and copy the line of code. Paste it in and say "hey there buddy, could you install this globally for me". Copy your authorisation code from the same page and paste that in too. Step 3: Check the connection "Backtest a simple strategy on BTCUSDT 1 hour, just to make sure we're connected". Step 4: Set it hunting "Research trading concepts, build strategies and backtest each on BTCUSDT 1 hour with fees on. Run every 15 minutes for the next 2 days. Reject anything under 100 trades, over 20% drawdown, profit factor under 1.1, or that fails to beat buy and hold. Log every result and show me the survivors". Step 5: Verify the best ones Copy the Pine Script, paste it into the Pine Editor on tradingview.com, add to chart. The numbers should match what Claude reported. Step 6: Forward test before real money Leave it running on live data for 3 months. 90% of strategies fail here, so make sure you forward test every one. Step 7: Automate the survivors Connect your exchange through trigger.trade, paste its message and webhook URL into a TradingView alert, set fills only.

Grok 4.7 is 8x cheaper than Claude per token. My arena's about to find out if it's cheaper per strategy. $2 per million tokens in, $6 out. Fable 5.1 costs $10 in and $50 out. xAI says it's built to think longer on hard problems and check its own work, which matters when it's writing trading strategy code. Last Grok I tested burned through tokens and built 2 strategies worth keeping, so this one has something to prove. I'm putting it into my arena this week to test it's its trading ability vs Fable 5.1 and GPT-6. Results will be live at aitradingarena.com. Stay tuned.

Hermes agent now runs my entire AI trading desk. I built it after GrokBot burned millions of tokens on agents chatting to each other about nothing. Here's how: Step 1: Install Hermes Go to hermes-agent.nousresearch.co…, copy the one line install command. Open your terminal (Mac: search "terminal"), paste it, hit enter. Step 2: Connect your AI When it asks for a provider, pick OpenAI. Choose subscription over API, it costs a lot less if you already pay for ChatGPT. Open the link it gives you, log in, paste the code from the terminal. Pick GPT-6 Astra as your model Step 3: Put it on your phone Select Telegram, choose automatic, follow the link and create your bot. Say yes to restarting the gateway, keep the default tools. Step 4: Open the desktop app Type hermes desktop in your terminal. Click New Bot, call it CEO, say hello to check it replies. Step 5: Give it a backtesting engine Free account at tradingkit.com, click My Account, copy the line of code. Paste it to your CEO bot with: "Install this MCP server onto Hermes and make it available to all of the Hermes agents and bots". Copy the authentication code from the same page and paste that in too. Step 6: Test the connection "Backtest a very simple TradingView strategy on BTCUSDT 1 hour" Stats come back, you're connected. Step 7: Build the desk Paste my desk prompt from app.strategyfactory.ai/resou… into the CEO bot It creates Gertrude, the chief of staff, plus a researcher, builder, Pine Script writer and optimiser, all in one group chat. They build and test strategies on a schedule, mine runs every 10 minutes. Step 8: Build mission control Create a new bot called Mission Control, paste my mission control prompt from the same page. Ask it for the local URL and API key, then give both to Gertrude so the agents log every strategy there. Step 9: Verify and automate the survivors Download the Pine Script from mission control, paste it into the Pine Editor on tradingview.com. Connect your exchange through trigger.trade, paste its message and webhook URL into a TradingView alert. Make sure you forward test every strategy for 3 months before real money.

How to turn one working trading strategy into 5. Once you've got one that passed testing, here's how to get a portfolio out of it. Step 1: Get set up Claude desktop at claude.ai/download, then open Claude Code. Free account at tradingkit.com. Click my Account, copy the line of code, paste it in, "install this globally" Step 2: Find every pair it works on Paste your strategy with: "Backtest this on the 20 biggest crypto pairs, 1 hour, fees on, full history. Rank them by profit factor and show drawdown and trade count for each" Step 3: Keep the ones that pass on their own 100+ trades, drawdown under 20%, profit factor above 1.1, beats buy and hold. Anything failing those goes, no tuning to rescue it. Step 4: Tune each survivor for its own pair "Optimise the settings for each survivor separately using 2022 to 2024 only, then test those settings on 2025 to today" Settings that hold up on the years they never saw are the ones to keep. Step 5: Check they don't move together "Compare the monthly returns of the survivors and flag any two that lose money in the same months" Drop one of any pair that does, you want them struggling at different times. Step 6: Deploy the 5 best Same rules with 5 different coins, each tuned to its own market. Forward test each one 20 trades before real money. That's how a handful of ideas became the 5 bots I run.

This Claude prompt tells you if a trading strategy is worth your time in 60 seconds. Before backtesting anything, run the idea through this: "Here's a trading strategy idea: [describe it in plain English]. Before I test it, answer 4 things. 1: What market condition does this need to work, trending, ranging or volatile. 2: How often does that condition actually happen on a 1 hour chart. 3: What's the obvious way this fails. 4: Is this a well known published idea that plenty of people are already running. Then give me a verdict, worth testing or skip it, and the one answer that decided it" You get a yes or no before you spend an hour testing.