I spent the last 3 years building a Cryptocurrency Trading Bot Platform

I’ve always loved programming as far back as I can remember, but my journey into programming hasn’t been straightforward.

When I was about 13 or so, I started playing around with WordPress and building basic websites. I remember finally finding the source code files containing my website’s code. Probably one of the first times I ever saw code outside of the computer science class.

I could only understand what the code meant in relation to the component it represented. Finding a specific word on the page, and then looking for it in the code is how I started deciphering what the code means, and I remember I was instantly hooked by this.

From there, I continued to learn the basics: HTML, CSS and JS but it wasn’t until much later that I seriously got into backend programming.

It wasn’t until about 4 years ago, I decided to brush up on my backend programming skills. I had only very briefly used Python before. After trying working on some smaller projects, I decided to convert some of the trading bots that I had built on MetaTrader into Python.

Some Backstory

The first couple of bots I built were functional, but the code would probably cause you to have a stroke just by reading it. Nothing gets…