Custom Trading Automation · Proposal

A trading bot that runs your strategy, exactly as you wrote it.

Built to your written rules, tested against years of historical data before it touches real money, and monitored around the clock with alerts to your phone.

What this is not: a strategy, a guarantee of profit, or managed money. The bot executes rules you provide. Automation removes emotion and execution error from your trading — it does not turn a losing strategy into a winning one. Any developer who tells you otherwise is selling you something.

Client · — Prepared · — Valid 30 days

What you get

You own the software outright when it's done. You keep your own broker account and your own capital.

A bot that trades your rules automatically on your broker's platform.
Risk controls that can't be argued with — per-trade sizing, a daily loss limit, and a hard drawdown kill switch that flattens everything and halts.
Discord alerts on every entry, exit, and error, pushed to your phone in real time, plus a daily summary with P&L and equity curve.
A complete trade journal, logged to a database and exportable to CSV for your records and taxes.
Manual controls — pause, resume, flatten everything, adjust risk — without touching code.
Full source code and a handover guide. Cancel hosting whenever you like and run it yourself.

Boundaries I hold to

I never take custody of your funds and never hold withdrawal rights. I'm a software developer — not a licensed advisor, broker, or fund manager. This engagement covers your own capital only. If you're looking to trade other people's money or sell signals, that's regulated activity and I'm not the right person to build it.

Three phases, with a gate between each

You can stop after any phase. Nothing is locked into an all-or-nothing commitment.

Phase 01$600

Feasibility & Backtest

5 business days · paid in full to start

Your strategy written up as a precise, unambiguous specification
Backtest over the longest data period available for your pairs
Return, max drawdown, win rate, profit factor, average R, equity curve
Modelled with real spread, commission, slippage and overnight swap
In-sample and out-of-sample results reported separately
My honest written assessment — including if it's discouraging

Phase 02$1,400

Build & Demo

2–3 weeks · 50% / 50%

The full bot, live on a demo account with real market data
Risk module: sizing, daily loss limit, drawdown kill switch, position caps
Discord alerting and daily summaries to your phone
Trade journal with CSV export
Pause / resume / flatten-all controls
Minimum two-week demo run before any real money

Phase 03$800

Hardening & Go-Live

1 week · 50% / 50%

Automatic recovery from broker disconnects and platform restarts
Order reconciliation — no duplicate or orphaned positions after a restart
Deployment to a monitored server with auto-restart on crash
Go-live at reduced size, with a written scale-up schedule
Two weeks of included support after go-live

Why Phase 1 exists

Roughly half of strategies don't survive an honest backtest. Finding that out for $600 is a far better outcome than paying full price for a bot that faithfully executes a losing edge. If the results are bad, I'll tell you plainly, and you walk away having spent $600 instead of $2,800.

Hosting & monitoring

Your bot needs to run 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, on a machine that doesn't sleep, drop Wi-Fi, or get shut down at the end of the day.

Hosting & Monitoring

$75/mo

Month to month, cancel any time. Running a bot on your home PC means every restart, update and power blip is a missed trade or a stuck position.

Dedicated always-on server, positioned close to your broker for fast execution
Uptime monitoring with automatic restart if the bot or platform stops
Broker platform kept updated and connected
Discord alerts and daily summaries delivered to you
Encrypted off-site backup of your trade journal
Log review and a monthly health report
Small rule tweaks included — parameter changes, risk limits, adding a pair

Not included: new strategy logic, additional strategies, or major feature work — quoted separately at $75/hour. If you cancel, I hand over the bot and a setup guide so you can run it yourself. You own the software either way.

Cost and timeline

Phase	Duration	Fee
01 · Feasibility & Backtest	5 business days	$600
02 · Build & Demo	2–3 weeks + 2-week demo	$1,400
03 · Hardening & Go-Live	1 week	$800
Total to live trading	6–8 weeks	$2,800
Bundle — all phases paid up front	—	$2,500

Then $75/month for hosting and monitoring, starting at go-live. Payment by card; invoices sent from Stripe. Work on a phase begins when its starting payment clears.

The demo run

The two-week demo is the part people want to skip. Don't. It's where the problems surface while they're still free.

What I need from you

Your strategy rules, in writing. The Strategy Spec tab covers exactly what I need. Vagueness here is the single biggest cause of a bot that "doesn't do what I wanted."
A broker account with API or algo trading enabled. I'll advise on brokers if you're not committed to one. You keep sole ownership and sole withdrawal rights.
A demo account on the same broker for Phase 2.
Responsiveness during the spec phase. I'll have questions about edge cases you may not have considered — a weekend gap, a news spike, two conflicting signals. Your answers are the strategy.

Risk — the part I won't bury in a footer

Required disclosure

Trading foreign exchange on margin carries a high level of risk and can result in the loss of more than your initial deposit. Leverage works against you as easily as for you. The majority of retail traders lose money.

Backtested and hypothetical results have inherent limitations. They are prepared with hindsight and cannot account for every real-world condition. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Automated software can fail — broker outages, platform errors, data feed errors, network or server failure, unexpected market conditions, or defects in the software itself. Failures may occur while positions are open. Risk controls reduce but cannot eliminate this; stop losses may not fill at the requested price during gaps or fast markets.

This software is a tool that executes instructions you define. It is not investment advice. All trading decisions and all outcomes are yours. Only trade capital you can afford to lose entirely.

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Appendix A · Strategy Specification

Your strategy, written down precisely.

Fill this in as completely as you can. Where you're unsure, write "unsure" rather than guessing — I'd far rather ask than assume.

Why this matters

The bot will do exactly what this document says, and nothing it doesn't say. Once we both sign off, it becomes the definition of "working correctly" — so every ambiguity left in here becomes a bug later. A useful test for each answer: could a stranger who has never spoken to you follow this rule and reach the same decision you would?

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