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Use Claude to Build 7 AI Trading Bots

Stocks, Options, Crypto. The Multi-Strategy Playbook for Backtest to Live Trade

eBook: $9.99 Paperback: $16.99 187 pages
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Claude builds the bot. Python rules execute. You own the strategy. Seven working strategies — trend, pairs, earnings, news, options flow, crypto cash-and-carry, portfolio allocator — walk-forward backtested across five market regimes with a realism layer that nets out slippage, commissions, latency, and Claude inference cost.

You opened Claude Code. You typed: “build me a trading bot.” It generated 400 lines of Python in 30 seconds. Then you asked Claude where the volatility numbers came from. Claude admitted it had been making them up. The difference between traders who ship and traders who don’t isn’t talent — it’s that the ones who ship figured out the rule none of the books teach: Claude builds the bot. Deterministic Python rules execute the bot. The human owns the strategy. This playbook gives you all 7 bots and the architecture that runs them. Seven strategies, walk-forward backtested across five market regimes, with a realism layer that nets out slippage, commissions, latency, and the cost of Claude inference per trade.

What You'll Build

01
Why 7 Bots Beat 1

Why a portfolio of strategies survives regime shifts that kill any single bot.

02
Foundation — Your Multi-Bot Trading Stack

Alpaca, IBKR, Binance, Polygon — the retail-US infra that runs all 7 bots.

03
Strategy 1 — Trend Following on Equities and Futures

Donchian breakouts and ATR trailing stops on SPY, QQQ, ES, walk-forward backtested.

04
Strategy 2 — Mean Reversion with Pairs

Engle-Granger cointegration, Z-score entries, VIX regime filter.

05
Strategy 3 — Earnings Drift with Transcript NLP

Read transcripts in 30 minutes, size positions by surprise magnitude.

06
Strategy 4 — News Sentiment with Claude

Claude scores impact, Python rules pull the trigger — the line none of the books teach.

07
Strategy 5 — Options Flow Whale Mirror with Greeks

Delta budget, gamma cap, IV-crush filter, theta-decay close rules.

08
Strategy 6 — Crypto Cash-and-Carry Arbitrage

Funding-rate spread on Binance and Bybit — the institutional trade since 2018.

09
Strategy 7 — The Multi-Bot Portfolio Allocator

Risk-parity sizing, rolling 90-day correlation drops, drawdown circuit breakers.

10
Backtest Honesty

How to detect a Claude hallucination in your backtest before you go live and lose real money.

11
From Backtest to Live — The Execution Gap

5-stage paper-to-live ladder with go/no-go gates that catch infrastructure bugs before real capital.

12
Permanent Edge — Keeping All 7 Bots Alive

When edge decays, when to retire a bot, how to add an 8th — the operating manual for a live portfolio.