I Built a Crypto Trading Agent for 0 Per Month - Heres Exactly How

Disclaimer: Not financial advice. All trading examples use paper trading / simulation only. Crypto is extremely volatile and speculative. You can lose 100% of your investment. I was paying $47/month for a cloud crypto trading bot. It was fine. Not great. The UI was polished, the strategy builder was flexible, and the customer support was responsive. But I kept asking myself: why am I paying $47/month for something Python could do for free? So I built it. Spent two weekends writing the core system, another month paper trading with it, and now it's been running for six months with exactly $0 in recurring costs. Here's the full breakdown. The $47/Month Problem Cloud trading bots charge you for: Compute time (running your strategy on their servers) API management (they handle your exchange connections) Monitoring (keeping your bot alive 24/7) The platform/UI itself The dirty secret: all of this is free if you own the infrastructure. Your laptop runs Python for free. CoinGecko has a free ti