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A week into this project and honestly…

I get it now 😭

From the outside, building a trading bot sounds simple:

“just define the strategy and automate it”

But once you actually start testing things in live conditions…

you realize markets are full of edge cases.

One candle behaves differently.

One session moves weirdly.

One fake breakout ruins the entire logic.

And suddenly your “clean strategy” becomes 50 different exceptions and conditions.

Today I spent a lot of time trying to simplify things again.

Because every time I add too many filters:

* the bot becomes slow

* logic becomes messy

* overfitting starts creeping in

But if I make it too simple…

it starts taking absolutely cursed trades 💀

So right now the biggest challenge is balance.

Trying to make the bot:

* structured enough to avoid nonsense

* but flexible enough to survive real market behavior

Honestly this whole process is teaching me more about trading psychology and execution than manual trading ever did.

The bot exposes every flaw instantly.

No excuses.

No “intuition”.

Just pure logic getting tested in real time.

Still learning every day.

Still debugging constantly.

But slowly starting to see where an actual edge *might* come from.

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No trading today.

No charts moving.

But I still spent hours looking through yesterday’s trades trying to understand what the bot was actually “thinking”.

And one thing is becoming very clear:

Building a trading bot is less about predicting the market…

and more about removing bad decisions.

Yesterday’s results exposed a lot of weak areas in my logic.

Some entries made sense.

Some looked like the bot just woke up angry and chose violence 💀

The hardest part right now is filtering.

Because in trading, avoiding bad trades is probably more important than finding good ones.

So today was mostly:

* reviewing screenshots

* replaying trades

* checking structure behavior

* questioning my own assumptions

* rewriting parts of the logic again

What’s funny is…

I started this thinking coding would be the difficult part.

But the real challenge is defining trading ideas clearly enough that a machine can follow them consistently.

Still messy.

Still learning.

Still nowhere near done.

Day 7 tomorrow — market opens again and I’ll probably find 10 new problems to fix 😅

Okay so a few people asked what this bot is even supposed to do.

Fair question.

I’m not trying to build some magic “print money” system.

I just want this:

👉 a bot that follows clear rules better than I can

That’s it.

Right now, my idea is simple:

Identify market structure(is price going up or down?)

Wait for a clean setup(not every move, only high probability ones)

Enter without hesitation(this is where I usually mess up)

Exit based on predefined rules(no emotions, no panic)

Basically…

Everything I know I should do —but don’t always execute properly.

That’s what I want the bot to handle.

Of course, turning this into actual code is a different story.

Half the time I’m not even sure how to define these concepts properly.

But that’s the challenge.

Figuring out how to convert “trading ideas” into “exact rules”.

Let’s see how messy this gets.

Day 4 tomorrow — I’ll start breaking down the actual logic.

Day 2/30

I’ve probably tried every indicator out there.

RSI? tried

MACD? tried

Moving averages? obviously

Random YouTube “100% win rate” strategy? yeah… that too

And every time it felt the same:

First few trades → “this is it, I figured it out”

Then suddenly…

Nothing works.

Loss after loss.

Then what do I do?

Switch strategy.

Again.

And again.

At one point I realized I wasn’t even trading anymore…

I was just chasing something that *felt* like it worked.

That’s when it hit me:

👉 I don’t actually understand the market

I’m just reacting to signals.

That’s when I came across SMC.

And for the first time… things started making a bit more sense.

Not perfect.

But at least logical.

Still… one big problem:

Even when I knew the setup…

I didn’t trust myself enough to execute it properly.

Hesitation kills more trades than bad strategies.

And that’s where this whole idea of building a bot came from.

If I can’t trust myself to execute…

Maybe I can trust a system to do it better.

Still figuring things out.

Day 3 tomorrow — I’ll share what I’m actually trying to build.

“Be honest — how many strategies have you switched?”

Day 1/30 — building my own MT5 trading bot

I’ve been trying to figure out trading for a long time now.

Watched videos.

Used indicators.

Tried different strategies.

Sometimes it worked… most times it didn’t.

And the worst part?

Even when I *knew* what to do… I still messed it up.

Entered late.

Exited early.

Second guessed everything.

Then I came across SMC (Smart Money Concepts).

For the first time, things actually started making sense.

But again… same issue.

👉 Execution.

So I started thinking…

What if I just remove myself from the process completely?

No emotions.

No hesitation.

Just pure logic.

That’s when I decided:

I’m going to build my own trading bot.

From scratch.

For the next 30 days, I’ll be working on:

* turning SMC into actual logic

* coding it in Python

* connecting it with MT5

* testing if it actually works

No fake results.

No “guru” stuff.

If it fails, I’ll show that too.

Let’s see where this goes.

Day 2 tomorrow.