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.

by Davidd Tech12 Oct 2026

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)

Steps are our summary of the source (it has no explicit step list). Includes a “Based on” credit line.

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Agents, models and tools only what the source states

Agents
Claude Grok Bot

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