Automation

⚠️ Registration Threshold: Pionex doesn’t support KYC for mainland China ID cards. You’ll need a valid ID from Taiwan / Singapore / Malaysia / United States, etc. See Pionex Restricted Regions Official Notice. After running the Pionex grid bot for 4 months, the biggest pain point was no alert when price hits the range boundaries. When price breaks above or below your configured range, the bot stops automatically—but you won’t know when you need to step in (to reconfigure or pause). ...

Managing multiple VPS means one thing: you need to check their status every single day. Disk filling up, services crashing, memory spiking—catch these early or they become production incidents. This post covers a practical solution: Python script SSH’s into each server, collects metrics → Gemini CLI analyzes for anomalies → Telegram Bot sends a daily report. ...

A Quant Strategy Needs More Than Just Code: Building Your Complete Monitoring & Alerting Stack Running a quant strategy requires far more than the strategy itself—you need a full suite of tools to execute it reliably, monitor its state, and get alerted when things go wrong. This post shares my complete tooling setup, from strategy execution through alerts. Overall Architecture Strategy Layer (Python) ↓ Trading Orders Binance API ↓ Execution Results State Files / CF KV ↓ Metrics Prometheus + node_exporter ↓ Storage Grafana Visualization ↓ Alert Rules Alertmanager → Telegram Strategy Execution Layer Tech Stack Language: Python 3.11 Binance SDK: python-binance Scheduled Tasks: APScheduler or system cron Dependency Management: requirements.txt + venv Directory Structure quant/ ├── strategy/ │ ├── main.py # Core strategy logic (signal generation + order placement) │ ├── signals.py # Indicator calculations (technical indicator library) │ └── risk.py # Position sizing, stop-loss logic ├── exchange/ │ └── binance_client.py # Binance API wrapper ├── monitor/ │ └── exporter.py # Expose state metrics in Prometheus format ├── config/ │ └── settings.py # Configuration (read from environment variables) └── run.py # Entry point Key Code: Exposing State Metrics While your strategy runs, write key metrics in Prometheus text file format for node_exporter to scrape: ...

This is the follow-up to the OpenClaw Getting Started Guide, assuming you’ve already installed OpenClaw and gotten basic Telegram interactions working. This covers the advanced techniques you’ll want once you’re actually using it in production. Multi-Agent Task Division OpenClaw lets you configure multiple Agents in the same Telegram group, each handling a different domain. This is probably the most underrated feature. ...

OpenAI released Codex CLI in early 2025—a tool that lets you write code, edit files, and run commands directly in your terminal using AI. Unlike ChatGPT on the web, Codex CLI’s core strength is directly manipulating your local filesystem, so AI actually gets work done instead of just handing you snippets to paste. This guide covers the complete setup from installation to your first task, taking about 10 minutes. ...

💡 China users: Binance’s official site can’t be accessed directly from mainland China—you’ll need your own networking tools. Fiat deposits don’t support bank cards; the main method is C2C (USDT↔CNY) channels. The Binance API is your gateway to quantitative trading. If you want your strategy to execute automatically—auto buy, auto stop-loss, auto position monitoring—you need the API. ...

You’ve bought a VPS and written quant strategy code, but how do you get it to “run automatically” and “tell you what’s happening at any moment”? That’s where most people get stuck. I solved this with OpenClaw. What is OpenClaw Simply put: a framework that lets AI assistants call various tools. Its core capabilities are: Provides CLI tools (openclaw message send) to send Telegram/Discord messages from any script Has a Skill system to equip AI with various capabilities (GitHub, Notion, weather, custom scripts) Supports cron scheduled tasks and remote triggering For quant trading, the most useful part is message push notifications. ...

Writing Quant Strategies with Claude Building quant strategies has a high barrier to entry: you need to understand trading logic and write code. Claude cuts that barrier in half — you just need to know the trading logic, and it handles the code part. This article documents my process of building a complete quantitative signal system from scratch with Claude. ...

OpenClaw Intro & Setup If you’ve used Claude Code, you can think of OpenClaw as its “async version”—Claude Code is great when you’re sitting at your computer working interactively, while OpenClaw is designed to let AI help you continuously in the background, even when you’re away from your desk. What OpenClaw Is Actually For One sentence: Give your AI assistant the ability to access and operate external tools, and interact with you through Telegram and other channels. ...

Using OpenClaw for automation—the real headache isn’t configuration, it’s when things mysteriously stop working mid-run. This post covers the failures I’ve hit and their fixes. Gateway Issues Gateway Service Won’t Start Symptoms: Telegram messages go unanswered, AI assistant doesn’t reply. Check: openclaw gateway status Common Causes & Solutions: Cause Solution Process crashed openclaw gateway restart Bot Token expired Get a fresh token from BotFather, update config Port conflict Use lsof -i :port to find what’s using it, kill it Windows won’t auto-start on boot Add to Task Scheduler for startup Windows Caveat: On Windows, Gateway doesn’t auto-start with the system. After each reboot, you need to manually launch it: ...

I’ve been using Claude Code—Anthropic’s CLI tool—to manage my fleet of servers since last year, and it’s genuinely changed how I work with infrastructure. This is what AI should be doing: not chatting, but actually getting things done. My setup 9 overseas VPS instances (AWS / DMIT / Tencent Cloud), distributed across the US, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, running: Proxy nodes (Xray + Hysteria2) Quantitative trading strategies Monitoring stack (Prometheus + Grafana) Various automation scripts I used to SSH into each machine manually. Now I just tell Claude Code “update the Xray config on the Japan machine,” and it handles the SSH connection, modifies the config, restarts the service, and verifies it’s working. ...

⚠️ KYC Requirements: Pionex doesn’t support KYC verification with mainland China IDs. You’ll need a valid ID from Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the US, or similar regions. See Pionex’s official regional restrictions. Grid trading is the longest-running quant strategy I’ve deployed—simple but effective. This article shares my real experience running grid trading on Pionex. It’s not about getting rich overnight, but how to steadily let automated trading help you profit from market oscillations. ...