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Day 1/30 — building my own MT5 trading bot

I’ve been trying to figure out trading for a long time now.

Watched videos.

Used indicators.

Tried different strategies.

Sometimes it worked… most times it didn’t.

And the worst part?

Even when I *knew* what to do… I still messed it up.

Entered late.

Exited early.

Second guessed everything.

Then I came across SMC (Smart Money Concepts).

For the first time, things actually started making sense.

But again… same issue.

👉 Execution.

So I started thinking…

What if I just remove myself from the process completely?

No emotions.

No hesitation.

Just pure logic.

That’s when I decided:

I’m going to build my own trading bot.

From scratch.

For the next 30 days, I’ll be working on:

* turning SMC into actual logic

* coding it in Python

* connecting it with MT5

* testing if it actually works

No fake results.

No “guru” stuff.

If it fails, I’ll show that too.

Let’s see where this goes.

Day 2 tomorrow.

Okay so a few people asked what this bot is even supposed to do.

Fair question.

I’m not trying to build some magic “print money” system.

I just want this:

👉 a bot that follows clear rules better than I can

That’s it.

Right now, my idea is simple:

Identify market structure(is price going up or down?)

Wait for a clean setup(not every move, only high probability ones)

Enter without hesitation(this is where I usually mess up)

Exit based on predefined rules(no emotions, no panic)

Basically…

Everything I know I should do —but don’t always execute properly.

That’s what I want the bot to handle.

Of course, turning this into actual code is a different story.

Half the time I’m not even sure how to define these concepts properly.

But that’s the challenge.

Figuring out how to convert “trading ideas” into “exact rules”.

Let’s see how messy this gets.

Day 4 tomorrow — I’ll start breaking down the actual logic.