Build log

Building automated
crypto strategies, in public

Everything else on this site is a calculator or a reference table. This page is different — it's a running log of software I actually trade with: three separate automated strategies, each running its own slice of real capital across nine coins, placing their own orders with no manual intervention and no discretion on the day.

Checking live status…
Since inception —
Today —
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Momentum rotation — Daily %

Last 30 trading days
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Mean reversion — Daily %

Last 30 trading days
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ALT rotation — Daily %

Last 30 trading days
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Blended — Daily %

Last 30 trading days, all three combined
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Cumulative P&L — last 12 months

Blended and each strategy, since inception
Fills in with real monthly P&L once the system is trading live capital.

What it is

An automated trading system covering nine liquid coins — Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Solana, Bittensor, Cardano, Algorand and Hedera — built on n8n and executed on Binance. It only ever owns the coin outright: no leverage, no derivatives, no borrowed money, and so no liquidation risk. It checks for new signals on a schedule, not continuously, and rebalances what it holds accordingly.

How it trades

Momentum rotation

Ranks the nine coins by trend strength each day and holds the strongest, most established uptrends, rotating out of a coin the moment a stronger one overtakes it.

Mean reversion

Looks for short, sharp dips inside those established uptrends and buys them for a quick bounce, with a fixed time limit on every trade so nothing sits open indefinitely waiting to be right.

ALT rotation

Ranks the eight altcoins against Bitcoin and holds the four strongest, each kept only while it is outperforming Bitcoin on a longer-term trend measure, and sits out in cash the rest of the time rather than taking a bet on Bitcoin itself.

Every position, in any of the three, is opened with its exit already defined on the exchange — a stop-loss and a profit target are placed in the same instant as the trade itself. Because the system only ever holds spot positions and never shorts, it makes money by rotating into whichever coins are strongest (or by sitting in cash), not by predicting that any of them will fall — a market where everything falls together is a scenario this design does not have an answer for.

Risk controls

  • Fixed risk per trade — every trade risks a small, fixed slice of the account, sized backwards from the stop-loss distance rather than the other way round.
  • Daily loss limit — halts new trades for the rest of the day once losses reach a set threshold, resuming automatically the next day.
  • Drawdown circuit breaker — halts new trades if the account falls a set percentage below its peak value, resuming only once it recovers.
  • Spread exposure — spread across nine liquid coins rather than concentrated in one.

Where it stands

  • Momentum rotation — live and trading, running daily, holding the strongest of the nine coins by trend.
  • Mean reversion — live and trading, running hourly, buying short dips inside confirmed uptrends.
  • ALT rotation — live and trading, running daily, holding the four strongest alts while they are outperforming Bitcoin.
  • Fully automated — no manual approval on any trade, in any of the three.
  • Mechanical exits — every position carries its own stop-loss and profit target from the moment it opens.
  • Account-level circuit breakers — a daily loss limit and a drawdown halt, both self-resetting, sit above all three strategies.

The stat cards and charts above are wired to the same live feed the system itself updates, refreshing automatically through the day — no further action from me. It's still early days for all three strategies, and a short track record shouldn't be read as proof either way: in keeping with how everything else on this site is written, I'd rather show the numbers plainly and let them accumulate than dress up a handful of days' results.

Not financial advice, and not an offer. This page describes software I built and run myself. It isn't a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any cryptoasset, and nothing here is an offer to manage money on anyone else's behalf. Cryptoassets are highly volatile and you can lose everything you put in. This is not an FCA-authorised investment management service. Any performance figures shown above are historical, reflect this specific system only, and are not a reliable indicator of future results.

Following along

I'll update this page as the system moves through testing and, if that goes well, into live use. If you have questions about the build, or you're curious whether it's ever likely to be open to outside capital, get in touch — I read everything that comes in.