Connecting MetaTrader 5 to Your Own Backend: 4 Architectures Compared
Sooner or later every serious MetaTrader project hits the same wall: the logic you need doesn't fit inside one Expert Advisor. You want a risk engin…
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How to Backtest a Polymarket Trading Bot
A reliable Polymarket backtest must reconstruct the market conditions your strategy could actually have traded under—not simply replay historical pr…
Solving Adverse Selection in Automated Market Making via Deterministic MCP Tools
In high-frequency liquidity provision, specifically within decentralized prediction markets like Polymarket, the difference between a profitable str…
Polymarket Protocol Versions: V1, V2, V3 and What Trading Bots Need to Know
Polymarket version numbers are getting harder to talk about casually. You can see: V1 V2 V3 PolyV2 and assume there is one protocol that simply move…
Keep Freqtrade running 24/7: systemd vs a zero-dependency watchdog
You built the strategy. You backtested it. You started it with nohup . Three days later you check the P&L and… the process is gone. It has been…
Polymarket Order Book Imbalance: Reading Market Depth
Learn how Polymarket order book imbalance measures bid and ask pressure, when it contains useful information, and how to test it quantitatively. Wha…
Building a Stock Token Arbitrage Bot on Robinhood Chain with TypeScript
A practical architecture for reference pricing, multiplier normalization, executable spreads, risk controls, execution, and reconciliation. Arbitrag…
The Matrix of HFT: Unpacking the Hype
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Here's the thing: I used to think high‑frequency trading (HFT) was some sort of wizardry—people in dark rooms flashing…
How To Building a Polymarket TWAP-Aware Trading Engine
Building a Polymarket TWAP-Aware Trading Engine A trading engine can predict the underlying asset correctly and still lose the trade. That sounds ob…
Inside a Crypto Trading Bot: What Actually Happens Between Market Data and an Order
A cryptocurrency trading bot looks deceptively simple from the outside. There is a market, there is some trading logic, and eventually an order gets…
Polymarket Bot Order-Book Imbalance: How to Detect Real Market Pressure
Order-book imbalance looks simple. Count the bids. Count the asks. Compare them. If bids are much larger than asks, the market looks bullish. If ask…
Local LLM Speed by GPU Generation, and Our Production's Daily Token Volume
Model names, serving configs, and full prefill/decode measurements included In my last post (new tab) I talked about switching to the RTX 5090. This…
Polymarket Trading Bot Setup: Practical 2026 Guide
Learn Polymarket Trading Bot Setup with Python, CLOB V2, authentication, WebSockets, execution, testing, security, and monitoring. Introduction A se…
Polymarket Paper Trading Bot: Build One in Python
Polymarket Paper Trading Bot: Build One in Python A real-money trading bot is the wrong place to discover that your signal logic, order-book handlin…
Polymarket Trading Bot Position Sizing: A Practical Guide
Polymarket Trading Bot Position Sizing A profitable signal is not enough. A Polymarket trading bot also needs to decide how much capital to risk. Po…
How I built an FVG trading bot for OKX and made 99% of its signals useless on purpose
How I built an FVG trading bot for OKX and made 99% of its signals useless on purpose If you trade crypto futures, you know the drill. You're starin…
Polymarket Slippage: How to Control It in Trading Bots
Slippage can quietly destroy a profitable Polymarket trading strategy. Your signal may correctly identify a YES token as undervalued, but that does…
"[Jul 27-29] A Silent Crash, a Missing Record, and 27 Hours of Signal Silence"
Three days spent chasing incidents where "nothing happened" rather than "money went out wrong" — a silent Monday-morning crash, a performance-record…
[Jul 10] Caught Three Things That Were Going Wrong Quietly
From a generation that spiraled out of control forever, to a morning fix that quietly halved throughput by evening This is the English version of a…
The Lab: a backtester that is allowed to say "no"
gex.live has two halves. The terminal measures where SPX options dealers are positioned, every second, from the tape. The Lab is the half that asks…
Implied vs Realized Volatility: Reading the Gap
Implied vs Realized Volatility: Reading the Gap By Shakti Tiwari · Educational only · Not investment advice This article explains implied vs realize…
Moving Averages & RSI: Becoming The One in Technical Analysis
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) Honestly, I used to stare at candlestick charts feeling like I was trying to read ancient runes. I’d spot a sudden spik…
ML Feature Store Versioning: Reproducible Quants
ML Feature Store Versioning: Reproducible Quants By Shakti Tiwari · Educational only · Not investment advice This article explains ml feature store…
Volatility Surface Basics: Term Structure Explained
Volatility Surface Basics: Term Structure Explained By Shakti Tiwari · Educational only · Not investment advice This article explains volatility sur…
Theta Harvesting: Collecting Decay Without Getting Burned
Theta Harvesting: Collecting Decay Without Getting Burned By Shakti Tiwari · Educational only · Not investment advice This article explains theta ha…
Exchange API integration: connecting a trading system without losing orders
Cross-post. Original: stellarbytecapital.com/blog/exchange-api-integration Every trading system eventually meets an exchange API, and that's where c…
How to Build a Stock Market Trading Bot in Python: Channeling Your Inner Neo
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Honestly, I was tired of staring at candlestick charts while my coffee went cold. I kept thinking, “What if I could aut…
The Matrix of Machine Learning for Stock Prediction: Separating Hype from Reality
The Quest Begins (The "Why") Hey friend, picture this: you’re scrolling through a finance forum at 2 a.m., eyes glazed over candlestick charts, and…
StratCraft and the Physics of Quant: Keeping the Render Layer Away from the Core
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series. Part 1: Your Brain Is a Rendering Engine. So Is Every LLM. explored why LLMs and human brains invite the same ren…
Left Brain vs Right Brain in Trading: What Science Says
Why your trading losses might not be strategy failures — they could be brain mismatches I failed at trading for 18 months. Not because my strategies…