Got a trading bot you don't fully trust? I'll audit one for free this week and share the results.
A few weeks ago I had three bots running, two on a cloud server and one on my laptop, and over a week they took zero trades. I figured the market was quiet and kept paying for the VPS.
It wasn't the market.
When I finally read the code properly, one bot had a take-profit set below its entry price. It literally could not book a winning trade. Another had a timer that could never complete.
Across a year of historical data the thing detected 184 valid setups and killed 100% of them before a single order went through. I was days away from funding it with real money.
That sent me down a rabbit hole building a proper testing pipeline.
Now I want to point it at someone else's bot, in the open.
Here's what I'm doing:
Reply or DM me a bot you're suspicious of.
I'll pick one, run it through the full audit, and post the results back in this thread.
Everything anonymized. No names. No code shared publicly.
You get a free teardown and everyone else gets to see what an honest audit actually looks like.
What I check:
• Whether it can even place a trade.
I've seen more bots with logic bugs that make execution literally impossible than I expected. Code read plus candle-by-candle replay catches these.
• Whether it ever had an edge.
Multi-year backtest against just buying and holding the same asset. Most don't survive this.
• Whether fees kill it.
Same backtest at zero cost versus real commissions and slippage. A lot of strategies that look profitable on paper only work because they assume free execution.
• Whether the settings are curve-fitted.
A parameter grid sweep across nearby values. If the edge only exists at one specific setting and falls apart everywhere around it, that's not edge, that's luck.
At the end I give it one of four verdicts:
- Mechanically broken
- No historical edge
- Edge with caveats
- Validated
Not selling anything here.
If you want to see what the output looks like, here's a full report on one of my own failed bots:
https://botwringer.com/sample-report.pdf
And the methodology if you want to know exactly how I run it:
https://botwringer.com/methodology.html
Best candidates are something you bought or downloaded rather than built yourself.
Python is easiest to work with and crypto markets are what I have the most historical data for.
Just drop what market it trades and whether you have the source code.
I'll pick one by Thursday.
(Educational analysis of software you own, not investment advice.)