Use Claude to Build an AI Trading Bot One Weekend
Turn $500 into $10K in 90 Days with Stocks, Options, and Prediction Markets
Build a working AI trading bot this weekend. Not theory. A real Python bot connected to live market data through Claude and Unusual Whales MCP, placing paper trades on Alpaca, validated with Monte Carlo backtesting before you risk a dollar.
You’ve seen the screenshots. $300 turned into $11,550. This book is different: you build a working AI trading bot this weekend, validate it with Monte Carlo backtesting, and follow a 90-day plan from paper trading to real money.
What You'll Build
The viral Twitter story and the March 2026 inflection point.
Python, Claude API, Unusual Whales MCP, Alpaca paper trading.
Real-time sentiment, flow, and volume correlation.
Watchlist scanner ranked by smart money signals.
Real-time Unusual Whales integration with Alpaca execution.
Monte Carlo simulations with 1,000 runs to prove statistical edge.
Polymarket and Kalshi bots with mispricing detection.
Four specialized AI traders as a personal hedge fund.
Position sizing, stop-losses, circuit breakers, Kelly Criterion.
90-day deployment plan: $500 to $10,000 with hard go/no-go criteria.
5 real failure modes: API downtime, overfitting, hallucinations.
Personal trading, client services, or signal subscriptions.
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Monte Carlo Backtesting: Is Your Trading Edge Real?
Monte Carlo backtesting trading strategies in Python: 1,000 simulations plus an in-sample/out-of-sample split for one go/no-go verdict before going live.
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