Your AI trading assistant.
On your machine.
Always watching.
The complete setup guide to building a personal AI agent that monitors crypto markets, tracks your portfolio, and alerts you — 24/7, from your own hardware.
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2 minutes. The full picture.
Most retail traders are flying blind.
The market never sleeps. Your manual setup can't keep up — and you know it.
Checking 5 tabs on repeat
TradingView, CoinGecko, your exchange, a Discord feed, and a fear/greed index — all refreshed manually, constantly, because nothing talks to each other.
Missing the moves that matter
The breakout happened at 3am. Bitcoin crossed your entry while you were asleep. The liquidation cascade was over before you even opened the app. By the time you knew, it was too late.
No real portfolio picture
Spreadsheets don't update themselves. Your P&L is always stale. You have no idea what percentage BTC actually is anymore, or whether your risk is blown out across three exchanges.
This guide shows you how to build the system that fixes all of that — running on hardware you own, doing the watching you can't.
A full trading intelligence stack. Yours to own.
Six integrated modules. One agent. Running on your hardware around the clock.
24/7 Price Alerts
No alert fatigue
Configurable thresholds with smart deduplication. Get pinged when it matters — breakouts, support tests, percentage moves — not on every tick.
Portfolio Tracker
Know your numbers
Morning reports with P&L in your base currency, allocation drift warnings, and automatic rebalance reminders when your target weights slip.
Exchange API Integration
Keys stay local
Connect Binance, Coinbase, or Kraken in read-only mode. Your API keys never leave your machine — no cloud middleman, no third-party risk.
Signal Agent
Market intelligence
Aggregates Fear & Greed Index, on-chain volume anomalies, and funding rates into a single signal feed. Know the market's mood before you trade.
Overnight Monitoring
Sleep without worry
Severity levels let urgent events wake you up while routine moves wait for your morning digest. Configurable quiet hours mean no 3am pings for small moves.
Risk Management
Protect your capital
Built-in position sizing calculator, R:R ratio tracker, and rule enforcement. Set your max drawdown limits and let the agent remind you before you cross them.
30+ pages across 10 chapters.
Written for traders who know their way around a terminal but don't have time to piece it together from scattered docs. Every chapter has working code examples.
OpenClaw Fundamentals
Install, configure, and understand your AI agent runtime from scratch.
Exchange API Setup
Connect Binance, Coinbase, or Kraken in read-only mode — safely and locally.
Your First Price Alert
Build a real alert agent in under 30 minutes. Threshold logic, deduplication, delivery.
Portfolio Tracker Agent
Live balance aggregation, base currency P&L, and allocation calculations.
Market Signal Pipeline
Pull Fear & Greed, volume data, and funding rates into a structured feed.
Overnight Watch System
Severity levels, quiet hours, and morning digest delivery — the complete solution.
Risk Management Module
Position sizing formulas, R:R calculator, and rule-based guardrails.
Alert Delivery & Formatting
Telegram, email, and webhook integrations with rich formatting templates.
Putting It All Together
Compose the full stack into one coherent agent with a unified config.
Customization & Extension
Add your own signals, indicators, and data sources. Make it yours.
Built for traders who take this seriously.
Not for day-one crypto buyers. For traders who already understand risk and want better tooling.
Position Traders
Swing trades over days or weeks
- You hold positions overnight and can't babysit charts
- You need key level alerts, not tick-by-tick noise
- A morning summary of what moved while you slept is worth everything
- You want risk rules enforced without relying on memory
Active Traders
Multiple positions, high signal density
- You run several positions across different pairs at once
- Manually tracking P&L across exchanges is eating your time
- You want a single feed for volume anomalies and funding spikes
- Allocation drift warnings save you before they become problems
DeFi Traders
Protocols, yields, and on-chain moves
- You need custom data sources beyond centralized exchanges
- Fear & Greed and on-chain volume matter more than OHLCV
- Your portfolio spans wallets, not just exchange accounts
- The extension chapter shows you how to add any data feed
Not for you if: You're looking for automated execution, a managed bot service, or a one-click solution. This guide teaches you to build the system yourself.
Common questions
What hardware do I need to run this?
Any machine that can run Node.js will work — a laptop, a Mac mini, a Raspberry Pi 4, or a VPS. The guide includes a section on low-cost always-on hardware options. Minimum specs: 2GB RAM, any modern CPU. Most readers run it on a spare machine or a $5/month VPS.
Does this require programming experience?
You'll need to be comfortable in a terminal and familiar with basic JavaScript or TypeScript concepts. You don't need to be a developer — the guide walks through every step with working code examples. If you've ever used npm or written a config file, you'll be fine.
Which exchanges are supported?
The guide covers Binance, Coinbase Advanced Trade, and Kraken out of the box, using read-only API keys stored locally on your machine. Chapter 10 covers how to add any exchange that offers a REST API — including DEX data via public endpoints.
Will this place trades automatically?
No — and that's intentional. The system is an intelligence and alerting layer, not an execution bot. It watches, analyzes, and tells you. You decide what to do with that information. Keeping humans in the execution loop is a deliberate design decision.
What is OpenClaw, and do I need to pay for it?
OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent runtime that runs locally on your hardware. It's free and open source. This guide assumes you're starting from scratch and walks you through installation and configuration in Chapter 1. No subscriptions, no cloud dependencies.
More questions? hello@openclawtrades.com
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