Build in Public
90-Day Paper Trading Challenge
We're building an autonomous trading bot in public. 90 days. Weekly transparency reports. Real decisions, real data — zero real capital at risk.
What is this?
Most trading bots promise the moon. We're doing something different: we're proving ours works before anyone risks a single dollar.
For 90 days, our autonomous trading bot will operate in paper trading mode — simulated trades with $10,000 in virtual capital. Every decision gets logged. Every week gets published. Wins, losses, and everything in between.
This isn't a course. It's not a signal service. It's a transparent look at what it actually takes to build a trading system that works.
Where We Trade
Want to trade along when we go live?
Our bot runs on Kraken — a regulated, transparent exchange with deep liquidity on BTC, ETH, and SOL. If you're setting up an account to follow along, it's where we'd start. Bybit is our secondary exchange for derivatives exposure.
The System
How it works
9 Trading Strategies
Mean reversion, RSI swing, MACD cross, Bollinger bounce, volume breakout, DCA ladder, minute scalper, Polymarket spread arb, and market making.
LLM Decision Layer
Qwen3.5-plus analyzes every signal. It can approve, reject, or queue for human review. Confidence scores drive execution.
dry_run = true
Every trade is simulated. No real money moves. Position limits, circuit breakers, and daily budget caps enforce discipline.
15-Minute Cycles
The bot polls market data every 15 minutes. It scans crypto and Polymarket, runs all 9 strategies, and decides: buy, sell, hold, or adjust.
Weekly Reports
Every Monday, we publish a transparency report: trades taken, P&L, what worked, what broke, and what we're changing.
Public Dashboard
Live metrics at hub.tacavar.com. Equity curve, trade history, strategy performance, and confidence scores — all visible.
Transparency Reports
Weekly updates
Week 1 — March 17-23
Setting the Baseline
Initial setup, strategy calibration, and first signals.
Week 2 — March 24-30
First Trades, First Lessons
8 trades executed, overtrading detected, cluster detection shipped.
Week 3 — March 31–April 6
Cluster Detection Holds, Regime Shift
Cluster fix validated, regime classifier upgraded, equity curve live.
Week 4 — Coming soon
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Every Monday: real data, honest lessons. Plus, get our 10-page guide "The Trading Bot Blueprint" — free.
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Why we're doing this
The trading bot space is full of black boxes and unverifiable claims. We're doing the opposite: complete transparency.
Every decision is logged. Every week is published. When we win, you'll see it. When we lose, you'll see that too. This discipline makes us better — and it might help others building similar systems.
After 90 days, we'll evaluate whether to transition to live trading. Until then, it's paper all the way.