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Cool stuff! I started building something similar back in 2018 or so, we ran a crypto quant fund.

We actually found some very good arbitrage opportunities using derivatives, that didn't even need automation, so we used that. But I figured it would be cool with a tool for people to make their own strategies.

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Thanks! :) Why did you guys stop?

In the beginning we were making 8-12% a month, just arbitraging derivatives so very low risk (except platform risk etc). But after a few months it started shrinking, and shrank down to 2-3%. Still very good for a traditional fund when annualised, but we only managed a few million from friends and family so it didn't really make sense for us financially any more.

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