Build and backtest a trading bot with no coding background
Non-developers have an agent build, backtest and run a trading strategy; claimed results are unverified.
Prompt for your agent
Goal: Have the agent help me design, backtest and build a trading strategy from scratch. Setup: agents used in source: Claude, Grok Bot. Steps: 1. Explain the market and the strategy idea in plain language; the author started with zero technical background. 2. Have the agent backtest the strategy (Fable 5 was used for backtesting and building). 3. Check the backtest for bugs. A separate dev.to write-up found its own backtest had bugs that inflated results. 4. Run the bot from an agent you can talk to from your phone (GrokBot in the step-by-step source). Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify. Note: Profit figures in sources are the authors’ own unverified claims. Based on: Davidd Tech — https://x.com/DaviddDotTech/status/2109556174555386014 (summarised from source; the source has no explicit step list)
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Sources & credit
- Davidd Tech @DaviddDotTech primaryX post · 12 Oct 2026https://x.com/DaviddDotTech/status/2109556174555386014
- Just a Side Project @just_a_side_projectDEV post · 17 Sep 2026https://dev.to/just_a_side_project/debug-log-3-i-had-claude-code-backtest-a-trading-strategy-for-a-week-and-it-found-three-bugs-in-5g50