The TradeArmor Blog
Founder notes on self hosted crypto trading, signal mechanics, DCA strategy depth, indicator deep dives, and the things SaaS bots will not tell you.
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3Commas Legacy Plan Sunset: What Long-Time Users Should Know
3Commas is retiring legacy plans for pricier Starter, Pro, and Expert tiers. Here's what a 3Commas legacy plan user should actually do next.
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Signal Stacking vs. Overfitting: How Many Indicators Should a Crypto Bot Use
Signal stacking helps a crypto bot right up until it doesn't. Where confluence turns into overfitting, and how many indicators is actually too many.
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Is 3Commas Safe? A Custody-First Answer
Is 3Commas safe? It never had withdrawal access and rebuilt its key storage after the 2022 leak. Here is exactly what that covers, and what it still doesn't.
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WunderTrading Alternative: Self-Hosted, Keys Stay Local
A self-hosted WunderTrading alternative that keeps the multi-bot toolkit but never stores your exchange API keys on a server, with no bot-count ceiling.
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SMA Golden Cross and Death Cross Strategy for Crypto
A golden cross and death cross strategy for crypto runs on the classic 50-day and 200-day SMA, not EMA. The mechanics, the history, and the bot rule.
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OBV Strategy for Crypto: Reading On-Balance Volume Before Price Confirms It
An OBV strategy tracks cumulative volume flow to catch buying or selling pressure before price confirms it. The formula, divergence reads, and the bot rule.
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Keltner Channel Strategy for Crypto: Trading the Squeeze Before It Fires
A keltner channel strategy pairs an EMA basis with an ATR envelope to catch crypto's pre-breakout squeeze. The formula, the TTM setup, and the bot rule.
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ATR Stop Loss and Position Sizing for a Crypto Bot
An ATR stop loss scales with volatility instead of a flat percentage guess. The formula, the position sizing math, and how to gate it into a crypto bot rule.
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ADX Strategy for Crypto Traders
An ADX strategy for crypto measures trend strength, not direction. The threshold levels that matter, why ADX alone never trades, and the bot rule that gates it.
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Stochastic Oscillator Strategy for Crypto Trading Bots
A stochastic oscillator strategy on the default 14,3,3 settings whipsaws hard in a real trend. The formula, the fast vs slow vs StochRSI split, and the fix.
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Best Bitstamp Trading Bot
The best Bitstamp trading bot: what Bitstamp's Pro order types cover, where they stop, and how to run gated DCA and signals with a trade-only key.
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Parabolic SAR Strategy for Crypto Traders
A parabolic sar strategy without a trend filter turns into a whipsaw machine. The real formula, the acceleration factor, and how to gate it into a bot rule.