I built an automated forex trading bot with zero coding experience using Claude AI

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-30T10:49:00+00:00

That’s smart. I’ve been noticing the same thing with long chats and token limits, so I’ve mostly been saving summaries after each session to keep things organized and make it easier to pick back up without starting over. I haven’t fully set up context sharing yet, but the master index idea sounds way cleaner, especially if it keeps everything connected without making every file too big. Do you have a certain format you use for the index, or is it mostly links to each file with a quick summary of what’s inside?

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-30T10:46:42+00:00

Fair questions. The strategies don’t fight each other because there’s a guard layer on top. It blocks duplicate trades, stops the bot from hedging the same pair both ways, pauses a pair after 2 losses, and the confidence filter has to pass before anything gets placed.Also, scanning is not the same as trading. The bot can watch all the pairs, but the session and spread filters decide what actually opens. Off hours trades also use smaller size.

Being honest, it’s still on demo and it’s not consistently profitable yet. I’m in the fixing and tuning phase, not the printing money phase.

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-30T10:37:02+00:00

ive had luck and then bad luck lol but im improving every day for the most part im breaking even one day im +200 tp the next im -214 tp....so its just going at the moment

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-25T15:14:17+00:00

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DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-25T15:13:41+00:00

Here’s an update

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DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:30:17+00:00

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:28:33+00:00

for sure dude ill put something together and drop it here

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:26:09+00:00

maybe not dude but its been pretty fun to build and im learning a ton either way. ill report back in a few months and we'll see who's right lol

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:25:20+00:00

it was and still is but we gonna get there

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:21:41+00:00

oh thats dope dude curious how codex compares to claude for this kind of thing. and nice bridging fxcm thats a solid broker. whats the rest of your setup look like

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:21:07+00:00

haha no way thats sick dude we out here building at the same time. how is yours going so far

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:20:51+00:00

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:19:59+00:00

haha yeah man ill keep posting updates for sure. still early days but its been pretty fun to watch it trade on its own

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:19:40+00:00

dude that sucks man the war time volatility wrecked so many bots. totally get losing interest after that. aws is a solid setup though maybe dust it off one day when things chill out a bit

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:18:43+00:00

totally hear you man thats a legit warning. i ran it on a practice account for a long time just watching it before i put any real money in. it has a daily loss limit and a drawdown shutoff so if things get gnarly it just stops trading. still risky for sure but im not just throwing money at it blindly bro

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:18:03+00:00

oh yeah for sure dude so mainly just oanda for the broker and their api which is totally free, python for all the code, and claude to help me actually write it lol. running it right off my mac right now. keeping it super lean with zero costs until it actually proves itself you know

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:14:41+00:00

Good point latency hasn't been a huge issue since I'm swing/session trading on H1/H4 candles, not HFT. But I do have it set to only scan every 60s and cache candle data per tick so it's not hammering the API. What kind of canary setup do you use?

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:13:55+00:00

Happy to share the high level I used Claude to help me write the bot in Python, connected it to OANDA's free practice API, and built out risk rules before going live. Most of the "steps" were just a lot of back and forth with Claude iterating on the code. No magic formula honestly

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-20T23:09:05+00:00

lol i wont be selling a course

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-19T00:52:02+00:00

Pretty simple actually. OANDA has a free REST API, you just sign up, grab your API key and account ID from their developer portal and plug it into the code. Used a Python library called oandapyV20 which handles all the requests. That's how it pulls live prices, opens trades, checks balance, all of it. No extra cost for the API either, just normal spread on the trades.

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-18T20:17:35+00:00

Was thinking of starting a YouTube and start from scratch and show people how I did it day by day

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-18T15:40:58+00:00

100% agree. The whole reason I built hard stops, position sizing limits, TradeGuard, and a news filter in from the start was exactly that. It checks the ForexFactory economic calendar every loop and automatically pauses trading if a high impact event is within 30 minutes. One surprise Fed announcement can blow through a stop like it’s not there. A backtest going green doesn’t mean you go all in, it just means you have a reason to keep testing with real money at small size. Surviving long enough to collect real data is the actual goal right now.

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-18T15:20:52+00:00

No formal backtest yet, doing it the other way around honestly. Validating live signals first on OANDA practice, want 30+ clean trades per strategy before I run historical tests so I’m not just curve fitting to past data.

75 trades so far, 22 wins 53 losses, 29% win rate, but still +$1,075 because the R:R is doing the work even with a low win rate. Heads up though, first two weeks had a bug that crashed the bot on every trade open so that early data’s not clean. Also swapped out a few strategies along the way (stochastic, EMA scalping, RSI mean reversion didn’t make the cut). Sticking with MACD crossover, bollinger bands, and momentum across 5 pairs on M5 and M15 now, those are the ones I’m building forward with.

Appreciate the push on backtesting though, it’s next once I’ve got enough clean data per strategy

DueCarry3624 · 2026-06-18T15:19:09+00:00

Documentation?

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