Progress on my custom algo trading bot from the last 2 years of solo development. (Questions)
u/Destroyer1357912 ·
Reddit — r/algotrading
· June 13, 2026 at 01:13
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The author outlines a custom swing-trading algo bot developed over 2 years, with simulated paper trading outperforming SPY in bear markets and matching in bull markets after taxes.
The bot is not yet released; the author plans an open beta and is integrating with Robinhood and Interactive Brokers.
Quality assessment: This is anecdotal developer progress sharing, not rigorous DD or verifiable backtest data. Lacks specific strategy details, risk metrics, or independent validation.
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No, it isn't officially released yet. All details concerning the bot are not public yet. I have been working on this for a long while. Going on 2 years. This screenshot is the bot paper trading (yes it can paper trade) with a $200,000 account over the last year simulated. Even though I am planning on it only using $2,000 of my own money.
Right now, I added a tax calculator to roughly estimate the short term capital gains because this bot is a swing trader.
I have tested it against markets from 2018-present day and it has beaten SPY in certain bear market simulations (+10 points higher) and in bull markets it is roughly doing the same after taxes are considered. Exciting stuff.
I am proud of the progress and hopefully ready for an open beta sometime this year. But I just got my CDL and am leaving the military, so I won't have much time.
I am gonna rig this thing up to robinhood + IBRK when it is ready. And then I will probably release it once I have enough data to support its existence and investment.
Any advice on things to do and check before you should release something like this? Has anybody else done it?