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Building a Free AI Trading Bot With Claude Code and TradingView: From Backtesting to Auto-Generated PineScript

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I Built a FREE AI Trading Bot With Claude + TradingView (Full Guide)

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TL;DR · What you'll learn

1 A creator who says he's built trading bots on YouTube for five years walks through building a no-code trading bot through conversation with Claude alone.
2 The process is three steps: (1) have Claude Code build a bot on a proven strategy, (2) implement that logic in TradingView so it can run 24/7, (3) connect it to an exchange for full automation.
3 He stresses backtesting a strategy for long-term profitability before running it live, since jumping straight to live trading risks losing money.
4 Claude Code auto-generates the strategy in PineScript, TradingView's native language, so the bot keeps running in the cloud even after you close your laptop.
5 After 24 hours of backtested optimization, the strategy reportedly returned 500% net profit with an 11% max drawdown across 141 closed trades.
6 The creator explicitly states 'I'm not a financial adviser and none of this is financial advice,' closing with advice on backtesting rigor and diversifying across strategies.

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Three Steps: Build the Strategy, Implement in TradingView, Connect to an Exchange

The build breaks into three steps: (1) have Claude Code build a bot around a proven strategy, (2) implement that logic in PineScript, TradingView's native language, so it runs 24/7, and (3) connect it to an exchange (Bybit, in this case) for full automation. Connecting the free tool tradingkit.com to Claude Code lets the AI run backtests and optimization directly.

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'Backtest First' Discipline, and 24/7 Uptime via PineScript

The creator stresses that jumping straight from a strategy to live trading risks losing money, and insists on backtesting for long-term profitability first. Because Claude Code auto-generates the strategy in TradingView's native PineScript language, the bot keeps running on TradingView's servers even after you shut down your own computer.

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The Backtest Results, and the Creator's Own Disclaimer

After 24 hours of optimized backtesting, the strategy returned 500% net profit with an 11% max drawdown across 141 closed trades. The creator immediately cautions that '95% of backtested strategies fail in live markets,' recommending paper trading or a small live account before scaling up, plus diversification across multiple strategies. He closes by stating plainly: 'I'm not a financial adviser and none of this is financial advice.'

Editor's Take

This should be read as a technical demo of Claude Code integrating with specialized tools (TradingView, an external backtesting API) to automate a domain-specific workflow -- not as investment advice. Auto-translating logic into a domain-specific language like PineScript and wiring it to an external platform is a design pattern that generalizes well beyond trading, into fields like legal-document generation or control systems. And the creator's own explicit disclaimers -- 'not financial advice,' '95% of strategies fail live' -- underscore a broader point: AI-generated output should always be verified, never trusted blindly.

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I Built a FREE AI Trading Bot With Claude + TradingView (Full Guide)

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