# Use Claude to Build 7 AI Trading Bots
Stocks, Options, Crypto. The Multi-Strategy Playbook for Backtest to Live Trade

- Price: $12.99 (Kindle ebook)
- Level: Intermediate
- Pages: 187
- Best for: Multi-strategy portfolio builders
- You finish with: 7 bots: trend, pairs, earnings, news, options, crypto, allocator
- Series: AI Trading Bot Series, book 2 of 3
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- Web page: https://youcanbuildthings.com/books/claude-7-trading-bots

## What you get

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. 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.

## Chapters

1. Why 7 Bots Beat 1: Why a portfolio of strategies survives regime shifts that kill any single bot.
2. Foundation: Your Multi-Bot Trading Stack: Alpaca, IBKR, Binance, Polygon. The retail-US infra that runs all 7 bots.
3. Strategy 1: Trend Following on Equities and Futures: Donchian breakouts and ATR trailing stops on SPY, QQQ, ES, walk-forward backtested.
4. Strategy 2: Mean Reversion with Pairs: Engle-Granger cointegration, Z-score entries, VIX regime filter.
5. Strategy 3: Earnings Drift with Transcript NLP: Read transcripts in 30 minutes, size positions by surprise magnitude.
6. Strategy 4: News Sentiment with Claude: Claude scores impact, Python rules pull the trigger. The line none of the books teach.
7. Strategy 5: Options Flow Whale Mirror with Greeks: Delta budget, gamma cap, IV-crush filter, theta-decay close rules.
8. Strategy 6: Crypto Cash-and-Carry Arbitrage: Funding-rate spread on Binance and Bybit. The institutional trade since 2018.
9. 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.

## Free guides from this book

- [Claude Trading Bot Hallucination: 8-Point Backtest Check](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-trading-bot-hallucination.md): Catch Claude trading bot hallucination before live capital. Walk-forward backtest, 68% win-rate paradox, 8-point checklist, separate-session reproduction.
- [Cointegration Pairs Trading Python: Z-Score and Hedge Ratio](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/cointegration-pairs-trading-python.md): Cointegration pairs trading in Python with statsmodels: Engle-Granger test, Z-score entries at ±2.0, hedge-ratio sizing, 20-day time-stop, VIX regime filter.
- [Crypto Funding Rate Arbitrage Bot: BTC Cash and Carry](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/crypto-funding-rate-arbitrage-bot.md): Build a crypto funding rate arbitrage bot in Python. Long spot, short perp, collect funding every 8 hours when the rate exceeds 0.025%. Delta-neutral basis.
- [Multi Strategy Trading Bot Python: Risk Parity Allocator](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/multi-strategy-trading-bot-python.md): Multi strategy trading bot Python build: risk-parity capital sizing, 90-day correlation drop rule, drawdown circuit breaker, and intent netting at the broker.
- [Options Flow Trading Bot in Python: The 4 Greek Gates](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/options-flow-trading-bot-python.md): Build an options flow trading bot in Python with four Greek gates: delta budget, gamma cap, IV-crush filter, theta sweep. Stop the bleed before it starts.