I wanted to vibecode a trading agent using OpenClaw — just to test if it can build something usable without my explicit monitoring.
It did. In less than a week I went from nothing to a live trading bot. But I wanted to be safe, so I took over right before putting real money on it. I switched to Claude Code so I have full visibility about the changes and can work in an IDE.
The bot trades SOL/USDT perpetual futures on Binance with 6x leverage. It analyzes the market every hour, detects trends and reversals, and manages its own exits — partial profits, trailing stops, the whole thing. All backed by backtests.
The thing that surprised me most — I can fix it by telling OpenClaw what's wrong through Telegram and it's very efficient, fixing it and pushing to prod directly. That loop is wild. Describe a bug in a chat message, and minutes later it's fixed in production.
Right now I'm breaking even in choppy markets, and waiting for an upswing or downturn where I'm supposed to profit more, backed by backtests.
Vibecoding is a skill that gets better the more you do it. You need to know exactly how to direct the agent so it does not miss out critical areas. Like driving a car. I would do it again.