{"id":287296,"date":"2026-10-03T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/my-trading-bot-made-272-today-and-stopped-by-1pm\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:00:17","slug":"my-trading-bot-made-272-today-and-stopped-by-1pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/my-trading-bot-made-272-today-and-stopped-by-1pm\/","title":{"rendered":"My trading bot made $272 today and stopped by 1pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVRILUHbQSo?autoplay=1&#038;controls=1&#038;hl=en\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>One signal, two micro contracts, done before lunch. My bot bought 2 MES at 7764.00 when price stretched three standard deviations below the session VWAP and closed back inside, then exited at 7791.37. The day finished +$272.59 on the paper account.<\/p>\n<p>I chart and backtest my strategies on TradingView: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/?aff_id=118942\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/?aff_id=118942<\/a> (affiliate link: if you sign up through it I may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you).<\/p>\n<p>No second trade, no trying to win it back. The strategy takes at most one trade a day and is flat before the close &#8211; the discipline does more work than the indicator.<\/p>\n<p>Paper account, 2 micro contracts, $0.62\/contract commission. Not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.<\/p>\n<p>Full video: My trading bot made $700\/month. Then I bought 9 years of data: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R8BAbqFBiq0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/R8BAbqFBiq0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Made with AI: the research, code and video editing are done with Claude (Anthropic), and the narration is an AI voice. The trades and numbers are real (paper account).<\/p>\n<p>#algotrading #tradingbot #daytrading #shorts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One signal, two micro contracts, done before lunch. My bot bought 2 MES at 7764.00 when price stretched three standard deviations below the session VWAP and closed back inside, then exited at 7791.37. The day finished +$272.59 on the paper account. I chart and backtest my strategies on TradingView: https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/?aff_id=118942 (affiliate link: if you sign up through it I may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you). 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