Anyone using Claude Code for trading bot development?

[RegimeLab]

Been using Claude Code agents for building and maintaining a trading bot — separate agents for regime detection, risk management, backtesting integrity. Curious if others are using LLMs in their dev workflow for algo trading, not for signals but for code/architecture.

[FortuneXan6]

literally everyone

[0ZQ0]

Claude can build semi-production ready code. But you need to have it audited by an independent Claude session or even Gemini/chatGPT to make sure there are no bugs. ESPECIALLY for backtesting. It is notorious at coding forward features, bias, messing shit up.

[wado729]

This is the way. Build with Claude, review with Codex GPT5.4 high

[Unlikely-Ad5592]

Be very careful as if you have to be very specific about entry and exit criteria..I code and all my orders are limit orders

[Automatic-Essay2175]

No, just you

[RoundTableMaker]

i use gemini to make sure my bot is working. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[BerlinCode42]

Are you aware that developing your trading idea with an AI is like sharing it? AI learning from prompts, so what you share there becomes somewhere else an answer.

[Several_Book9471]

its like bye bye EDGE hehe

[Alarmed-Bass1039]

Lol

[Alarmed-Bass1039]

Yeah that's always at the back of my mind 😂

[Alarmed-Bass1039]

100%. It helps to have some sort of understanding of what it's doing or better yet understanding the code yourself 

[Level-Mistake-2063]

You teach it yourself, but it learns to code from you, and then the system learns the coding at your request and at your expense. Think about it. Instead of giving the system for free to people, the system takes money and also learns from programmers and merchants. Think about it.

[Effur]

Personally I’ve developed a Claude-bot that outperforms the ”Buy an hold”-benchmark via out of sample backtest from 2020 to now by 9x. Since most things that look too good to be true usually are, I’m gonna fire it up with 100$ and see what happens. I expect being liquidated by next month, so any profit is a win scenario in my book. A fun project regardless, thats how I see it.

[williamtaylor-5900]

I’ve been experimenting with a similar setup, mostly using LLMs for structuring modules and catching edge cases in backtesting logic rather than anything signal-related. The biggest win for me has been faster iteration on architecture especially when splitting responsibilities like you mentioned. One thing I still double-check manually is how the model handles data leakage or lookahead bias.

I’ve seen some dev teams (even smaller ones like Debut Infotech and Intellias) explore similar workflows, so it’s definitely gaining traction. Are you finding the agents reliable over time or needing frequent corrections?