About AutomatedTradeBot.com

This is an independent, single-operator site about the unglamorous half of automated trading — risk, position sizing and the engineering that keeps a bot alive. No signals, no "guaranteed returns", no course funnel. Just free calculators that show their formula and guides written without the hype.

Why this site exists

Most content about trading bots sells a dream: a screenshot of a green equity curve and a button to buy the strategy. The reality of automated trading is that the strategy is the easy part. What actually decides whether an account survives is risk management and position sizing — the math of how much to bet, what a drawdown costs you, and whether your edge is real or just an overfit backtest. That math is not complicated, but it is rarely explained honestly. This site is my attempt to fix that, with tools you can use in thirty seconds and guides that tell you the uncomfortable parts.

How the calculators are built and verified

Every tool on this site runs entirely in your browser as client-side JavaScript. Nothing you type is sent to a server, logged or stored — close the tab and it is gone. I build them to three rules:

The formula is shown. Each calculator page states the exact equation it uses — the fixed-fractional risk formula, the Kelly criterion f* = p − (1 − p)/b, the Sharpe ratio, the drawdown-recovery identity — so you can check the math yourself rather than trust a black box.
Standard, sourced methods only. The methods are the textbook ones: fixed-fractional and ATR sizing, the Kelly criterion (John L. Kelly Jr., 1956), the Sharpe ratio (William F. Sharpe, 1966), Average True Range (J. Welles Wilder Jr., 1978), and Monte-Carlo simulation for risk of ruin. Where a calculation involves regulation or definitions, I point to primary sources like the SEC's investor.gov and the CFTC.
Tested against worked examples. Each tool ships with at least one worked example on its page; the numbers in the prose are produced by the same formula the calculator runs, so the two can never silently disagree.

What you'll find here

The core is two free calculators on the home page — a risk-based position-size calculator and a compounding equity-curve projector — surrounded by single-purpose tools for the Kelly criterion, ATR position sizing, risk of ruin, backtest expectancy, Sharpe and Sortino ratios and drawdown recovery. Around the tools are practical guides: how to build a bot, risk management, position sizing, backtesting vs forward testing, API-key security, VPS hosting, fees, and honest comparisons of platforms and copy trading.

Editorial principles

Educational, never advice. Nothing here is financial, investment or trading advice, and nothing is personalised to your situation. Trading carries a real risk of loss; tools and rules of thumb reduce risk, they never remove it.
No promises of profit. You will not find claimed returns, "win rates", testimonials or invented experts on this site. The compounding projector explicitly assumes a best case that real markets do not deliver, and says so.
No fake authority. I write under my own name and do not invent credentials, quotes or reviews. Where expertise matters, I cite the actual researchers and regulators behind a concept rather than dressing up my own opinion as authority.
Corrections welcome. If a formula or figure is wrong, I want to fix it. Email me and I will correct the page.

How this site is funded

AutomatedTradeBot.com is free and reader-supported through Google AdSense advertising — the banner and in-content ad units you see on each page. Ads are how a free, no-signup, no-paywall resource pays for itself. They do not change what the calculators compute or what the guides recommend: there is no affiliate pressure on the math, and the tools work identically with an ad blocker on. I disclose this because, on financial topics, you deserve to know how a site makes money.

Contact

Questions, corrections or suggestions for a tool you wish existed: [email protected]. The site is operated by Mustafa Bilgic, Adıyaman, Türkiye.

Educational only — not financial advice. The information and tools on this site are for general educational purposes and are not financial, investment or trading advice. Automated trading carries a real risk of financial loss. Never trade money you cannot afford to lose, and consider the guidance at SEC investor.gov and the CFTC before trading.