An Agent Built Me a Trading Bot
McDonaghMatthew · x · 2026-07-17
The author woke up to find that a trading bot, built by an agent they had assigned the task to, had automatically executed a massive number of trades.
- The bot completed hundreds of trades overnight
- Generated a gross profit of $46k
- Achieved a win rate of 63%
- The post emphasized that the trading bot itself was built by another agent
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