Help My Bot

Why I'm building this in public

April 13, 2026

I've been thinking about markets for a while. Not in a professional way — more in the way you think about something you don't fully understand but can't stop reading about. At some point, thinking stopped being enough. I wanted to build something that could act on all that thinking. Something that wouldn't panic, wouldn't get bored, and wouldn't make decisions based on what it had for lunch.

So I built a bot. Or rather, I started building one — and I'm still building it. It's a scalping bot, trading crypto automatically, looking for statistically favorable moments to enter and exit a position. It runs on a small virtual machine in São Paulo, 24 hours a day, and it currently trades with simulated money while I figure out whether it actually knows what it's doing. So far, it's made one trade. It won. I'm aware that's not a large sample size.

This blog is the log of that process. Every session, I'll document what was tested, what broke, what the numbers showed, and what I decided to do next. I'll also share the exact technical parameters the bot is using at any given moment — entry conditions, exit conditions, all of it — because I suspect there are things I'm missing, and the only way to find them is to make everything visible.

The title is not ironic. I genuinely need help. If you're reading this and you see something I'm not seeing, the comments are open. That's the whole point.