Crypto Trading Bot

Problem

Describe the user pain, gap, or technical challenge that motivated the work.

Solution

A Python Telegram bot for crypto futures research and automation with exchange account linking, technical analysis, alert tracking, auto-trade logic, and pre-execution risk vetoes.

Tech Stack

Python, Telegram Bot API, CCXT, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, Backtesting

Features

• Telegram commands and inline menus for analysis, alerts, balances, and trading controls
• Per-user encrypted exchange credential storage
• CCXT futures and swap exchange connectors
• Hourly auto-trade runner with stop-loss and take-profit handling
• Pre-Execution Veto Layer with hard gates, soft scoring, audit logs, and alert suppression
• Walk-forward audits, compound simulations, golden-set checks, and retune proposals

Architecture & Development Process

Challenges

• Balancing automation with strict risk controls across different exchange behaviors
• Keeping backtests honest with fees, slippage, funding, and walk-forward validation
• Supporting multi-user accounts while encrypting credentials and preserving persistence

Lessons Learned

• Trading automation needs guardrails before it needs more signals
• Exchange integrations require tiny-size validation because protective order behavior varies
• Retune workflows are safer when humans approve changes instead of auto-shipping them

Roadmap

• Improve operator dashboards
• Add more structured risk reporting
• Continue forward-testing strategy variants