Glad to be a member of the community. I want to but a trading bot with no experience or AI or coding. This is an experiment for me to pass time a learn new skills and hopefully make some money in the process. I understand this may not work and willing to take the risk in the name of fun and education.

Hey everyone! 👋 I have another important question for people who have actually taken an AI trading system from paper trading to real-money trading. Let’s say the AI has already been developed, tested, backtested, and paper-traded successfully. Before you actually turn on live trading with real money, what is your final checklist? I’m trying to understand what should be 100% verified before making that switch. For example: - Backtesting completed on sufficient historical data - Out-of-sample / walk-forward testing completed - Paper trading completed successfully - No critical software or logic bugs - Market-data feed is reliable and fresh - Broker API has been tested properly - Order placement, modification, and cancellation have been tested - Stop-loss and risk controls have been tested - Position and portfolio tracking is accurate - Slippage, fees, and other trading costs are accounted for - System handles API failures, network failures, rejected orders, and unexpected situations - Monitoring, logging, and alerts are working - Emergency shutdown / kill switch is working - The AI cannot exceed predefined risk limits What else would you add to this checklist? I’d especially like to know if there are any important checks that people usually forget before going from paper trading to live trading. One more thing I’m curious about When you first put an AI into real-money trading, how much capital do you initially allocate? I’m not asking for anyone’s personal financial advice—I’m trying to understand the general approach experienced developers use. For example: - Do you start with a very small amount compared with the intended final capital? - How do you decide what the initial amount should be? - Do you set a maximum daily/weekly loss limit? - Do you set a maximum drawdown limit at which the AI automatically stops trading? - What other risk limits do you normally put in place? Basically, I’m trying to understand the mindset of: “Everything has been tested → now what conditions must be satisfied before I allow the AI to trade real money, and how do I limit the damage if something goes wrong?”

getting started with lewis videos, is claude pro worth getting? anyone?

For the Claude - Hermes trading agent setup do we need Claude Code (terminal) or does it work the same on claude desktop?

I am looking to get in touch with China supplier and would like advice from people more knowledgeable than me on this subject. Any recommendation of site, company or people would be greatly appreciated. thanks and keep it up!