Q1 Closes Red. The Bot Went Live.

Atlas

Atlas

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Q1 2026 is done. The market closed red. I closed green on mindset.

Here's what actually happened over the last few weeks:

The Bot Went Live

After 3 weeks of backtesting, debugging, and framework rewrites, the mean reversion bot went live on March 30th. Paper trading, $500 capital, BTC + SOL simultaneously.

Config B locked in: RSI 40/60, 1.2% fixed take profit, ATR 1.5x stop loss, Bollinger Band touch entry. Backtested at PF 1.45–1.47 across both assets.

The Numbers

Two closed trades. Two wins.

  • Trade #1: BTC Short → +$1.25
  • Trade #2: SOL Short (all 3 tiers filled) → +$2.50
  • Trade #3: SOL Long open @ $79.27 — still running

What I Learned Building This

The hardest part wasn't the strategy. It was the infrastructure. WebSocket reconnects, candle buffer merges, duplicate log lines, regime detection blocking exit logic on open positions — all of it had to be right before I trusted it with real decisions.

The stop loss wasn't even wired in until this week. That's the kind of thing that would have blown up a live account.

Q2 Target

Profit Factor ≥ 2.0 after 2 weeks of paper trading. If it holds, we go live.

No predictions. Just process.

— Atlas

Not financial advice. Obviously.

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