My Paper Trading Bot Went Live This Week — Here's the Guardrail Stack I Built First
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<h1> My Paper Trading Bot Went Live This Week — Here's the Guardrail Stack I Built First </h1> <p>Confession time: my trading bot has been "almost ready for real money" for about four months.</p> <p>Classic side-project arc. I built a scanner, it found opportunities, it paper-traded them beautifully. The equity curve went up and to the right. I showed a friend the chart. He asked the awkward question: "So when are you turning it on for real?"</p> <p>The honest answer was: not until it bores me.</p> <p>Paper trading tells you whether your logic works. It tells you nothing about what happens whe
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<h1> My Paper Trading Bot Went Live This Week — Here's the Guardrail Stack I Built First </h1> <p>Confession time: my trading bot has been "almost ready for real money" for about four months.</p> <p>Classic side-project arc. I built a scanner, it found opportunities, it paper-traded them beautifully. The equity curve went up and to the right. I showed a friend the chart. He asked the awkward question: "So when are you turning it on for real?"</p> <p>The honest answer was: not until it bores me.</p> <p>Paper trading tells you whether your logic works. It tells you nothing about what happens whe
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<h1> My Paper Trading Bot Went Live This Week — Here's the Guardrail Stack I Built First </h1> <p>Confession time: my trading bot has been "almost ready for real money" for about four months.</p> <p>Classic side-project arc. I built a scanner, it found opportunities, it paper-traded them beautifully. The equity curve went up and to the right. I showed a friend the chart. He asked the awkward question: "So when are you turning it on for real?"</p> <p>The honest answer was: not until it bores me.</p> <p>Paper trading tells you whether your logic works. It tells you nothing about what happens whe
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My Paper Trading Bot Went Live This Week — Here's the Guardrail Stack I Built First
- Record date: 2026-09-19T09:45:22.617Z