🚀 Trading Bot Evolution — What Actually Changed Over the Last Few Days
No new “magic indicator.”
No ML hype.
Just real system evolution where live trading actually breaks or works: observability, stability, and timing.
What did we improve?
🔹 Trailing is finally transparent
Instead of abstract internal values, the logs now show the exact market price where trailing is allowed to activate (arm@).
→ No more mental math. No guessing why 🪝 is still off.
🔹 Logs redesigned for traders, not machines
Each open position is logged in two lines:
1️⃣ Instant scan: Entry · Market · PnL · Trailing arm price
2️⃣ Deep context: ATR-TP · ATRΔ · SL · Holding time · Cooldowns
You scan it like a tape.
You analyze it like an engineer.
🔹 Noise removed, signal preserved
Detailed trail levels (min@, profit@) are logged only when price is close to the arming threshold.
→ Fewer logs, more meaning.
🔹 ATR back where it belongs
ATR stays a diagnostic tool — not a hidden target price you have to translate in your head.
🔹 Drift-free decisions
Everything we log is:
• deterministic
• comparable across days
• analyzable without interpretation
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💡 Why this matters
Most trading bots don’t fail because of bad ideas.
They fail because you can’t clearly see why the system did or didn’t act.
This evolution didn’t change the strategy.
It made the strategy trustworthy.
📈 Next steps
Now we collect clean data.
Then we decide — fact-based — whether trailing should activate earlier, later, or adaptively.
No rush.
No drift.
Just progress.