Autonomous trading bots, built with an AI coding agent, running on real money in small amounts. Each post is one bot: the strategy, the arithmetic behind it, what it actually earned, and why it was kept, rewritten, or retired.
Four trades on $500 netted 17 cents and burned a five-hour token budget. Why an agentic grid bot pays for frequency twice.
The first version of this bot needed a 46% rally to bank $73. The rewrite trades the dips instead — and beats buy-and-hold only when the market goes nowhere.
Fourteen weeks on LABU, three cash injections timed to the drops, and a ladder that trailed buy-and-hold for ten of them before finishing ahead.