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My daily-bar paper bots did 11 trades in a week for $34. The 1-minute one did 299 for $1,339. Talk me out of the fast one.

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Sep 5, 2026 · 01:20

Honest question from a week of watching my own paper bots, on a platform I built.

The daily-bar bots barely traded. Share Buyer on daily bars: 11 trades in a week, 82% winners, up $34. A daily new-highs spread bot: 2 trades, up $59. Sat through jobs-report day and closed one trade between them, for $8.

The 1-minute momentum cross on the same platform did 299 trades, 55% winners, up $1,339, worst trade $96. It lost $29 today and I didn't notice until I pulled the numbers.

Everything in me says the slow ones are the real trading and the fast one is noise that happened to land. But the fast one has the number. Paper money, so the commissions and slippage on 299 trades aren't fully real yet either.

For those of you who moved from intraday to swing, what made you trust the slower book when the faster one was printing?

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