🤖 Building an Algorithmic Trading Bot — Looking for Collaborators (Programmers + Traders Welcome)

Hey everyone,

I'm a systems programmer with experience in Go and Rust, and I'm looking to build a serious, production-grade automated trading bot connected to Bybit and/or Binance. I've done my homework on the technical side — WebSocket market data feeds, order execution, risk management infrastructure — but I want to build this as a team rather than solo, because the hardest part isn't the code: it's the strategy.

🎯 What I'm building

A fully automated crypto trading system covering:

Real-time market data ingestion (order book, trades, candlesticks)
Strategy engine with pluggable signal modules
Order execution with smart routing and latency optimization
Risk management layer (position sizing, drawdown limits, circuit breakers)
Backtesting framework with realistic slippage and fee modeling
Deployed on low-latency VPS close to exchange infrastructure

👥 Who I'm looking for

Most needed:

People with experience or serious interest in quantitative trading strategies — mean reversion, stat arb, funding rate arbitrage, trend following, market making, etc.
Anyone who has built or studied backtesting frameworks and understands the pitfalls (overfitting, lookahead bias, survivorship bias)

Also welcome:

Go or Rust developers who want to work on something non-trivial
People with a background in data science / ML applied to price/order flow data
Traders (manual or algorithmic) who understand market microstructure

You don't need to be an expert in everything — genuine curiosity, intellectual honesty, and willingness to learn matter more than credentials.

🤝 How I see this working

This would be a collaborative side project to start — no money on the table yet, just building and learning together. If we find a strategy with a genuine edge, we can discuss deploying real capital as a group. I believe in transparency: shared codebase (private repo), open discussion on strategy logic, and honest reporting of backtest and live results.

I'm not interested in hype or "guaranteed profit" thinking. I want people who understand this is hard, uncertain work — and find that exciting rather than discouraging.

📬 Reach out if...

You've thought about algo trading but didn't want to go it alone
You have strategy ideas you've never had the engineering bandwidth to test properly
You're a developer who wants a technically challenging, real-world project
You just want to learn how this world works alongside others

Drop a comment or DM with a bit about your background and what you'd bring to the table. Looking forward to meeting some like-minded people! 🚀

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