Money
Let the bot build the trading system, keep the kill switch
An agent that both builds the rules and pulls the trigger will rationalize a bad entry.
What hurt
Nick Caden’s unpopular take: Grok Bot is better at building a trading system than being the trader. It will write the scanner, risk rules, journal, and “don’t revenge trade” prompt — and it will also rationalize a bad entry if you let it. His build: bot does research plus an execution draft; he owns the kill switch.
What to install or create
One builder bot drafts scanners, risk rules, journaling, and anti-revenge prompts. Separately, it may propose an execution draft. You alone arm live orders. Prefer paper or draft mode until the rules look boring and enforceable.
Bots
System builder
Writes scanner, risk rules, journal, anti-revenge prompt. Draft only.
You
Kill switch. Arms live orders.
Plugins
Web search
Optional
Files
A written risk rules doc the bot must not edit without you.
Routines
None on the first run. Watch one manual pass first.
The prompt
Paste to the system builder
Curated from Nick Caden’s published take in the cited post.
Last line is our approval fence: Never send, post, spend, or buy without my explicit yes.
Build the trading system. Do not be the trader. Deliver drafts for: scanner, risk rules, trade journal template, and a “don’t revenge trade” prompt. You may propose an execution draft. Do not place live orders, move money, or rationalize a bad entry into a yes. I own the kill switch. Never send, post, spend, or buy without my explicit yes.
First run
- 1Create a system-builder bot with no live trading plugin on day one.
- 2Ask for scanner, risk rules, journal, and anti-revenge drafts only.
- 3Put the kill switch in your hands: no armed orders without a separate yes.
- 4Paper-trade or review drafts until the rules are boring.
- 5If you later connect a broker plugin, keep apply/execute behind approval.
Approval fence
No live orders, transfers, or exchange API keys without your explicit yes. Draft and paper only until you say otherwise.
What to tweak
Steal the kill-switch split. Never invent fills, PnL, or “guaranteed” setups on this page.
Source
Nick Caden @fullforcetrades · Original post
Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.