Building an AI Trading Bot with Claude Code: 14 Sessions, 961 Tool Calls

I wrote leverage ratios, stop-loss ranges, symbol lists, and timeframes into CLAUDE.md at specification level, then said "build the entire bot based on this CLAUDE.md." Two hours and 48 minutes later, 27 files appeared. Over 14 sessions and 961 tool calls, this is the full record of building an AI trading bot with Claude Code. TL;DR : CLAUDE.md quality determines code quality. Bug fix prompts should include the error code, a hypothesis for the cause, and a numbered list of requirements -- that is what gets the right result in one shot. A 5-agent review panel discovered that a 60% win rate was hiding net losses due to structural risk/reward problems. One Prompt, 27 Files Generated The first prompt in session 1: Build the entire bot based on this CLAUDE.md 2 hours 48 minutes, 104 tool calls. Out came bot.py , exchange.py , strategy.py , risk_manager.py , telegram_bot.py , and 22 other files. This was possible because CLAUDE.md already defined strategy parameters, risk limits, and API int