Argentarius · a rules-based crypto trading bot
A personal project built almost entirely with Claude Code and run like a small research lab: specs first, pre-registered tests, every decision logged, and an AI reviewer checking the AI builder.
Not financial advice. No real money is trading yet.
Each phase starts only when the one before it is clean.
Data importer, backtest engine and validation suite. The first four short-horizon strategies didn't qualify for paper trading; entry-level exchange fees set a high bar.
Rules and gates were written before testing. It didn't pass all of them, so instead of tuning it, it runs unchanged as a forward test against frozen expectation bands.
Scheduled runs, Telegram briefings with strict privacy routing, a static read-only dashboard, security hardening, daily shadow checks against the backtest.
Golden files that pin D1's outputs, change rules until live, and a tidy-up of the builder's rules. It replaced the multi-strategy platform, cancelled so the forward test isn't disturbed.
Connect the scheduled, read-only Claude Code reviewer, which lives in its own repository, then a triage protocol where every finding needs a verdict backed by evidence.
Months of scheduled runs in minutes: month and year ends, daylight-saving switches, missed runs, restarts and exchange faults.
Two weeks of clean paper on the final code, then a Linux server and small live trading with explicit approval at each step.
A second strategy track trading crypto ETFs through a stock broker's API, researched under a written statistics standard built from 26 sources.