Beginner
Start Here: How Bot Building Fits Together
A beginner roadmap connecting signals, APIs, webhooks, JSON, runtimes, state and monitoring.
Knowledge base
Bot-building guides you can actually use.
Search practical articles about MetaTrader 4/5, AI-assisted coding, TradingView, webhooks, JSON, Cloudflare Workers, VPS hosting, broker APIs, deployment and troubleshooting.
Beginner
API, Webhook, JSON and Endpoint Explained
A plain-English explanation of the terms used in almost every web-connected bot.
Beginner
Where Does a Bot Actually Run?
Compare a home PC, mini-PC, Linux/Windows VPS, Cloudflare Worker and MetaTrader hosting.
Beginner
Bot Project Checklist: Idea to Deployment
Define inputs, state, security, failures, tests and hosting before generating code.
Beginner
Bot-Building Glossary
Plain-English definitions with practical examples.
Architecture
How to Build a Trading Bot from Scratch
A practical step-by-step architecture for building a trading bot without tying strategy logic to one broker or hosting provider.
Webhooks
TradingView Webhooks and JSON: A Practical Guide
How TradingView webhook alerts send HTTP POST requests, how valid JSON changes the content type, and how to design a robust receiver.
Coding
JSON for Bot Builders: Payloads, Validation and Common Mistakes
A compact JSON guide for bot builders covering objects, types, nested data, validation, serialization and webhook mistakes.
Cloudflare Workers
Build a Cloudflare Worker Webhook Receiver
A practical Cloudflare Worker webhook receiver with JSON validation, a dedicated secret, fast responses and backend forwarding.
DigitalOcean
Run a Python Bot 24/7 on a DigitalOcean VPS
How to deploy a persistent Python bot on a Linux VPS using a dedicated user, virtual environment, systemd, logs and a firewall.
DigitalOcean
systemd for Bots: Restart, Logs and Health Checks
A focused systemd guide for keeping Python and Node bots alive after SSH disconnects, crashes and VPS reboots.
Deployment
Docker vs systemd for Trading and Automation Bots
A practical comparison of Docker and systemd for small bots, including when containers help and when they add unnecessary complexity.
Broker APIs
The Broker Adapter Pattern: One Strategy, Multiple Brokers
How to isolate broker-specific authentication, symbols and order formats behind one internal interface.
Broker APIs
Capital.com API Bot Guide: Sessions, Demo and Common Checks
A technical overview of using Capital.com Public API with demo endpoints, sessions, tokens, rate limits and defensive bot design.
Coding
API Rate Limits, Retries and Backoff for Bots
How to handle 429 errors, timeouts and transient API failures without creating duplicate orders or retry storms.
Security
Webhook Security for Bots: Secrets, Validation and Replay Protection
Security patterns for public webhook endpoints, including dedicated secrets, schema validation, replay protection and least privilege.
Webhooks
Webhook Debugging Checklist: From 400 Errors to Silent Timeouts
A systematic checklist for debugging webhooks when alerts fire but the bot does nothing.
Operations
Bot Logging and Monitoring: What to Record and Why
A practical logging schema for bots, plus heartbeat, health and alerting patterns that help diagnose problems after the fact.
Coding
SQLite for Bot State: Events, Positions and Recovery
How a small bot can use SQLite for durable event IDs, decisions and recovery without introducing a separate database server.
Safety
Order Validation and Risk Checks Before a Bot Sends Anything
Technical pre-order checks that prevent duplicate positions, wrong size, stale signals and accidental live execution.
Strategy Engineering
Spread, Slippage and Why a Good Signal Can Still Lose
How transaction friction can erase a statistical signal, and why bot evaluation should measure edge after spread and realistic execution.
Testing
Backtesting vs Demo vs Live: What Each Test Can Prove
A practical guide to what backtests, paper/demo accounts and small live tests can and cannot tell you about a bot.
Troubleshooting
Common Bot Failures and How to Diagnose Them
A field guide to common automation failures: rejected orders, stale sessions, missing data, duplicate events, restart loops and silent bots.
Operations
Designing a Bot Learning and Update Pipeline Without Breaking Production
How to separate data collection, learning/analysis, validation and deployment so model or parameter updates do not silently damage a running bot.
Architecture
Cloudflare Worker vs VPS: Which Should Run Your Bot?
A decision guide for choosing between serverless Workers and a persistent VPS, including a hybrid architecture that uses both.
Operations
Health Checks and Heartbeats for Long-Running Bots
How to detect a bot that is running but no longer receiving data, evaluating strategies or reaching its broker API.
Testing
Paper Trading Checklist Before Enabling Live Orders
A deployment checklist for proving a bot is operationally safe in demo or paper mode before any live-order switch is enabled.
MetaTrader
MetaTrader 4 vs MetaTrader 5 for Trading Bots
A practical MT4 vs MT5 comparison for Expert Advisors, testing, Python integration, VPS hosting and long-term bot development.
MetaTrader
Do MetaTrader Bots Need the PC On? 24/7 Setup Options
When MT4/MT5 bots need a running PC, when MetaTrader VPS is enough, and when a separate Windows VPS is the better choice.
MetaTrader
MetaTrader 5 + Python Bot Architecture
How the official MetaTrader5 Python package connects to the terminal, where it is useful, and what to run on a Windows VPS for 24/7 operation.
AI Tools
AI Prompts for Building Bots with ChatGPT, Claude and Other Coding Models
Reusable prompt templates for planning, coding, reviewing and debugging bots without asking an AI model to guess missing requirements.
AI Tools
TradingView AI Chart Copilot: What It Can and Cannot Do
A current guide to TradingView AI Chart Copilot, alert management, chart analysis and how it fits into a webhook bot architecture.
AI Tools
AI Browser Extensions for Trading Workflows: Useful, but Not a 24/7 Bot
How browser AI such as TradingView Chart Copilot and general browser agents can help research and setup without becoming the execution engine.
AI Tools
How to Prompt AI for Better Pine Script v6 Code
A Pine Script v6 prompt pattern that reduces version mixing, repainting mistakes, invalid JSON alerts and untestable strategy logic.