He claims he started with only $68, made $6,732 during his first night and later reached around $750,000 in total profit. Crazy numbers, although I’d definitely want to see verified trading history before believing all of it.

What interested me more was how this bot supposedly works.

It monitors more than 50 markets simultaneously and receives live BTC price data every second. When a short-term price difference appears between markets, software detects it and can react within seconds.

Instead of sitting in front of charts all day and manually comparing prices, he automated almost everything.

He even used an iPad as a second screen to monitor what was happening while his system kept scanning markets 24/7.

Even if that $750K number turns out to be exaggerated, building a working trading system in around 48 hours is still pretty interesting.

A few years ago, creating something like this required much more coding experience and development time. AI tools have made it possible for individual developers to prototype complicated systems much faster.

Building a bot is still one thing. Making it consistently profitable after fees, slippage, latency and changing market conditions is completely different.

But a 19-year-old building this over a weekend shows how much easier automated trading has become to experiment with.

Has anyone here tried building something similar? How did it perform once you moved beyond backtesting?

Guren “Bobby” Zhou, who is behind Aqua 1, was previously arrested but has not been charged. The investigation remains active. In 2025, Aqua 1 bought $100M worth of WLFI tokens, becoming one of its largest known buyers. The source of the funds remains unclear.

Under World Liberty’s revenue structure, up to 75% of token-sale revenue can go to a Trump family-linked entity, meaning as much as $75M from the deal could potentially have gone there.