The Full Story

## From frustrated crypto holder to launched product — here's the full story

I'm a full-time employed Australian dad — mortgage, two kids, the whole deal. I've held crypto for a few years but always felt like I was leaving money on the table. My holdings just sat there while people with more time were actively trading.

I didn't have time to watch charts. So about six months ago I decided to build something that would watch them for me.

### The build

I started with almost no Python knowledge and built a grid trading bot from scratch. Grid trading is a strategy that profits from price oscillation — it places buy orders below market price and sell orders above, capturing the spread each time a cycle completes. It doesn't predict direction, it just needs the price to move, which crypto does constantly.

It took 13 iterations over about six months to get to something I was happy running live. The main things I added over time:

•       Multi-pair support (BTC, ETH, SOL running simultaneously in separate threads)

•       State persistence — the bot saves its position and resumes after restarts

•       A double market entry mechanism to get immediate upside exposure at startup

•       Balance-backed sells — uses any existing coin holdings to place sell orders immediately

•       Auto-reset when price drifts outside the grid range