# Use Claude to Build an AI Trading Bot One Weekend
Turn $500 into $10K in 90 Days with Stocks, Options, and Prediction Markets

- Price: $12.99 (Kindle ebook)
- Level: Beginner
- Pages: 189
- Best for: Python devs who want to trade
- You finish with: Validated trading bot running this weekend
- Series: AI Trading Bot Series, book 1 of 3
- Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4duDLx0
- Web page: https://youcanbuildthings.com/books/ai-trading-bot

## What you get

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.

## Chapters

1. $300 to $11,550 in 30 Days: The viral Twitter story and the March 2026 inflection point.
2. The Stack You Actually Need: Python, Claude API, Unusual Whales MCP, Alpaca paper trading.
3. How AI Reads Markets: Real-time sentiment, flow, and volume correlation.
4. Your First Stock Screener Bot (45 Minutes): Watchlist scanner ranked by smart money signals.
5. Options Flow Trading Bot: Real-time Unusual Whales integration with Alpaca execution.
6. Backtest Everything: Monte Carlo simulations with 1,000 runs to prove statistical edge.
7. The Prediction Market Play: Polymarket and Kalshi bots with mispricing detection.
8. Multi-Agent Trading Systems: Four specialized AI traders as a personal hedge fund.
9. Risk Management That Keeps You Alive: Position sizing, stop-losses, circuit breakers, Kelly Criterion.
10. From Paper to Real Money: 90-day deployment plan: $500 to $10,000 with hard go/no-go criteria.
11. What Will Go Wrong: 5 real failure modes: API downtime, overfitting, hallucinations.
12. Your Trading Bot Empire: Personal trading, client services, or signal subscriptions.

## Free guides from this book

- [Build a Polymarket Prediction Market Bot With Claude](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/polymarket-prediction-market-bot.md): Build a Polymarket prediction market bot: pull live contracts from the public Gamma API, have Claude estimate true probability, flag 10-point mispricings by EV.
- [Build an AI Stock Screener Bot in 45 Minutes](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/automated-stock-trading-bot-build.md): An automated stock trading bot build that scans the options market with Claude and Unusual Whales flow, then prints a ranked watchlist with confidence scores.
- [Monte Carlo Backtesting: Is Your Trading Edge Real?](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/monte-carlo-backtesting-trading.md): 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.
- [Why a 61% Win Rate Still Loses You $14K](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/algorithmic-trading-for-beginners-python.md): Algorithmic trading for beginners in Python: the position-sizing rules and Kelly math that keep a real edge from blowing up your account on one bad trade.
- [Wire Claude Code to Live Market Data (UW MCP)](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-code-trading-bot.md): A Claude Code trading bot needs live options flow. Register the official Unusual Whales MCP server the npx way, verify it, and see the real 2026 cost ladder.