On 25 July 2026 I started building what I thought would be a relatively simple automated trading bot. Roughly six weeks later, it had become AlphaForge: an automated OANDA trading platform with a deterministic strategy, memory, NAV-based risk controls, broker reconciliation, analytics, separate Practice/Live architecture and research scaffolding for future adaptive and AI experiments.
This first episode is the overview: what AlphaForge actually does, what it does NOT do, and why Live trading is still deliberately locked.
CHAPTERS
00: 00 Intro
00: 47 The Idea
01: 58 The AlphaForge Pipeline
03: 33 The Strategy
05: 00 Memory
06: 18 Risk & Broker Truth
07: 42 Reconciliation & Dashboard
09: 05 Practice, Live, and AI Fences
10: 03 My Journey So Far
11: 25 Outro
MUSIC
Music by Reverie
Album: Pacing
Listen on Bandcamp:
https://reverie99.bandcamp.com/album/pacing
ALPHAFORGE
Website:
https://alphaforge.nz
DISCLAIMER
This video and the AlphaForge series are provided solely for educational, informational and documentary purposes. They document the development, testing and engineering of an automated trading system.
Nothing in this video should be construed as financial, investment, trading, legal or other professional advice, or as a recommendation, solicitation or invitation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument or to adopt any particular trading strategy.
AlphaForge is a personal development and research project. Any strategies, trades, performance figures, statistics, charts, examples or results shown are presented for the purpose of documenting the system and its development. They should not be interpreted as recommendations or representations of expected future performance.
Trading and leveraged financial products involve risk and may result in losses. Past performance, simulated results and Practice account results are not reliable indicators of future results or Live trading performance. Viewers should conduct their own research, consider their individual circumstances and, where appropriate, seek advice from a suitably qualified professional before making financial decisions.
AlphaForge’s Live trading environment is currently deliberately locked. Any discussion of future Live trading, adaptive systems or AI capabilities describes development goals or research and should not be interpreted as currently deployed functionality or as a promise of future performance.
No guarantee is made regarding the accuracy, completeness or continued availability of information presented in this series. The creator accepts no responsibility for financial decisions made by viewers based on the content of these videos.