The day I let an agent near real money, I wrote the rules first. Pinky gets a sandbox, a hard cap, no leverage past a line, and a kill switch I control. Guardrails before capability — every time.
TradingView for signals, KuCoin for execution, and a rule that any single position over a threshold pauses for me. The point was never to get rich while sleeping. It was to prove an agent can run a real, money-touching process without me hovering — inside walls I built sober and clear-headed.
Step Eight is making money work. You don't get there by handing a bot the keys. You get there by deciding exactly how far it's allowed to drive.