Live experiment
$100, traded by a bot
A trend-following bot I built trades BTC, ETH and SOL on Kraken with $100 of my own money. It checks the market hourly, decides at most once a day per asset, and only holds a coin while its trend is intact. This chart is its actual account equity — no backtest, no paper trading.
Current account value
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Account equity, daily close
One point per day, taken at the last reading of each UTC day. Hover, or focus the chart and use ←/→.
Show the data as a table
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How it works
- Regime filter. It only buys an asset trading above its 200-day moving average, with a 2% hysteresis band so it doesn't flip-flop on noise.
- Position sizing. Half the account per asset when a signal is on, 1% held back in cash for fees and slippage.
- Kill switch. If equity falls 40% from its high-water mark, the bot liquidates everything and halts until I restart it by hand. That threshold is set from a 10-year backtest — the strategy's own drawdowns run to ~50%, so a tighter stop would fire on ordinary dips rather than real trouble.
- Boring on purpose. Trend following spends most of its time doing nothing. A long flat line is the strategy working, not the bot being broken.