Trading automation · 2026
Tape Bot
A rules bot and metrics desk for a market book: strategy, paper, then live. Alerts, fills, and a log you can read the next morning. Not a second Bloomberg.
- Loop
- Rule → run → log
- Path
- Paper, then live
- Data
- Scrambled here
Problem
A strategy lived in a notebook and a chart. The night run was a person watching a screen. There was no honest log of what the rule did, what it skipped, and whether the live book matched the paper run.
Outcome
The desk can see the rule, the last run, and the fills in one login. Paper first. Live only when the log looks like the plan. Public screens are scrambled. They are not a live book or an exchange key.
The operational problem
A bot without a desk is a script that fires and a chat that argues about it later. Existing tools can show a candle. They do not prove what the rule did at 03:12, why it stood down, or whether last week’s paper run still matches the live book. If you cannot open the log, you do not have a bot. You have a hope.
What Tape Bot does
Rules are written in the open: what it watches, when it can fire, what it must skip. The desk shows the last run, the fills, and a metrics strip so the morning is a review, not a reconstruction. Strategy first. Paper next. Live only when the log is boring in the right way. It is not a high-frequency terminal and it does not pretend the tape is as current as a paid feed.
Built as a private desk
Exchange keys, if they exist, stay on the server. Sessions expire. The public page does not show a live book, a wallet, or a pair you can copy. Names, prints, and fills on this page are invented so you can read the shape of the desk.
What stays off the public page
No keys. No live orders. No real pairs. If a ticker looks familiar, you are reading scramble. The portfolio page is the product shape. The live book stays off the internet.
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