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Algorithmic Trading

Backtesting a Crypto Trading Bot: What Results Can and Cannot Tell You

Learn how to backtest a crypto trading bot while accounting for data leakage, overfitting, fees, slippage and the limits of historical results.

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Ioannis Makris
Financial Analyst
3 min
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Risk Management

Trading Drawdown Explained: How to Measure Strategy Downside

Learn what trading drawdown is, how maximum drawdown is calculated, and why recovery requires a larger percentage gain than the preceding loss.

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Yuri Cardone
Financial Analyst
3 min
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Risk Management

Risk Per Trade Explained for Crypto Traders

Learn what risk per trade means in crypto, how position size relates to stop distance, and why a percentage rule cannot guarantee a safe outcome.

YC
Yuri Cardone
Financial Analyst
3 min
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AI Trading

10 Questions to Ask Before Choosing an Automated Trading Platform

Use this 10-point checklist to compare automated trading platforms by custody, API permissions, fees, risk controls, monitoring and evidence.

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Pedro Goncalves
Success Manager
3 min
Manual steering wheel and decision lever balanced against automation gears, joined by a shared risk shield
Algorithmic Trading

Manual Trading vs Automated Trading: A Practical Comparison

Compare manual and automated trading across attention, speed, consistency, context, oversight and failure risk to understand where each approach fits.

YC
Yuri Cardone
Financial Analyst
3 min
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AI Trading

AI Trading Bots vs Rule-Based Bots: What’s the Difference?

Compare AI trading bots and rule-based bots by decision logic, data needs, explainability, adaptation, testing and operational risk controls.

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Ioannis Makris
Financial Analyst
3 min
Market-data particles passing through signal, validation and risk gates before reaching a neutral order chamber
Algorithmic Trading

Automated Crypto Trading: How a Bot Moves From Signal to Order

Follow how automated crypto trading moves from market data and signals through eligibility, risk checks, order submission, fills and reconciliation.

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Peter Hwang Lee
Research
3 min
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