YOUR BOT. YOUR COMPUTER. YOUR CONTROL.

Your trading bot runs on your computer.

BuildATradingBot takes a different approach from typical cloud trading platforms. Your bot is built as a Windows application that you download, install and run locally on your own computer.

DIRECT BROKER CONNECTION

Your bot connects directly to your locally running trading platform. With the platform signed in and the required API settings enabled, the bot can connect automatically using its configured local connection settings.

NO BROKER LOGIN ENTERED

Your broker username and password are never entered into BuildATradingBot.com. Only the connection information required for the local API connection is configured.

INDEPENDENT OPERATION

Once installed, your bot does not depend on BuildATradingBot.com being online. Start it, stop it and run it directly from your computer.

YOUR DATA STAYS LOCAL

Trading history, scans, decisions, settings and bot data can remain in your bot's own local database instead of requiring your complete trading activity to be stored on our servers.

OPTIONAL SHARED DATABASE — THE HIVE

Local doesn't mean isolated. Participating bots can optionally connect to The Hive, a shared network database.

Bots that choose to contribute structured trade data can benefit from the growing pool of data contributed by other participating bots, including community candidates and similar historical trades.

LOCAL EXECUTION. SHARED INTELLIGENCE. Your computer runs the bot. The Hive optionally connects it to the knowledge of the network.

BUILD A TRADING BOT

Configure a simple RSI trading bot with broker connection and trailing-stop protection.

BOT

BROKER CONNECTION

RSI ENTRY

EXIT

EXECUTION

LIVE TRADING WARNING

This bot can connect to IBKR and may submit real orders when LIVE mode and order execution are enabled. Confirm the account, port, symbol, quantity and safety settings before enabling execution.

Bot Review

BROKER
TRADE
ENTRY
EXIT / PROTECTION
EXECUTION
⚠ LIVE TRADING ENABLED

This configuration may submit REAL orders to IBKR.

BUILDING YOUR TRADING BOT
✓ Configuration submitted
✓ Windows build started
● Building Windows installer...
This normally takes about 1–2 minutes.

Broker credentials are not stored in this plan. The bot connects locally to your configured IBKR TWS or Gateway API.

WHY AUTOMATE?

Why Build a Trading Bot?

A trading bot turns your strategy into a defined set of rules that can monitor the market and act consistently — without requiring you to sit in front of a chart all day.

Trade the Rules, Not the Emotion

Define your entry, exit and risk rules before the trade happens. Your bot follows those instructions consistently instead of hesitating, chasing a move or changing the plan during a trade.

Stop Staring at Charts

Let the bot monitor the market while you do something else. When the conditions you've defined occur, the bot can recognize them automatically.

React Immediately

Automation can respond when your trading conditions are met without waiting for you to notice the signal, open an order ticket and manually enter the trade.

Build In Risk Controls

Position size, initial stops, trailing stops and exit conditions can be defined before a position is opened rather than decided after the market starts moving.

Make Strategies Repeatable

Turn a trading idea into specific rules that can be executed the same way each time. That makes a strategy easier to test, review and improve.

You Stay in Control

Choose the symbol, direction, indicators, position size, entry rules, exit rules and risk controls. Start in paper mode and decide when — or whether — live execution should be enabled.

Your Strategy. Your Rules. Your Bot.

BuildATradingBot turns the configuration you create above into a local trading bot built around your rules.