My little Bot trading experiment
I've recently gotten into something new that I'm really enjoying — trading bots. As part of an experiment, I set up a bot to trade on three different exchanges: Bitget, Binance, and OKX, and ran a comparison between them.
What stood out right away was how different the results were on Bitget. The bot had better entries and higher returns there compared to the other two. One reason could be that Bitget has better liquidity for altcoins, which helps the bot get in and out of trades more smoothly.
Still, I think there might be more to it than just that. I'm planning to do more backtesting and keep testing different conditions to see what else could be causing the difference. I’ll keep sharing updates as I go.
I built a Bitcoin trading bot years ago that won ~75% of each trade, +10 cents avg on wins, -3 cents avg on losses, something like 100 trades a day.
Problem was when I finally uncommented to part that actually called the API to let it execute for real the response times were inconsistent. Sometimes executing within a few milliseconds, sometimes taking multiple seconds to execute, sometimes not executing at all.
So was the bot successful? Yes? But the exchange API was not...
All that being said I ended up using that code to showcase my skills in an interview and landed a pretty sweet job so...
