Articles · updated September 2026

Articles

Deep dives into how the system actually works — written by the developer, grounded in the code, corrected in public when the code changes.


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How the bot reads charts: from candles to conviction

The pipeline from raw market data to a reasoned decision — market history, a 50-level order book, Numba-compiled indicators, a 1920×1080 chart image, and deterministic risk limits before an order is sent.

Vector memory: how an LLM trader remembers its mistakes

Closed trades become 768-dimensional vectors in ChromaDB. Before each decision the bot reviews its own history — 3 nearest setups, 20-trade statistics, 5 recent rejections — and a math check separates luck from skill.

From paper to a live executor: why order placement is a separate service

Reasoning and order execution are deliberately decoupled. The seven checks every decision passes, the verdict journal that closes the loop — and the honest state of the live path: testnet only, reconciliation still the weak link.

The full development story (December 2025 – September 2026)

The engineering history with real commit dates, the mathematics behind the gates, an honest status report, and a list of the claims this site got wrong and had to fix.

See the system in action: the live dashboard streams every decision, prompt and reasoning step in real time.

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