How to build an AI trading bot with Claude Haiku 5.5.
Haiku 5.5 dropped this week as Anthropic’s cheapest model and strategy hunting is exactly the high-volume job it’s built for.
Here how I built mine:
Step 1: Get Claude
Claude desktop at http://claude.ai/download, open Claude Code.
Type /model and pick Haiku 5.5.
Step 2: Give it a backtesting engine
Free account at http://tradingkit.com, My Account, copy the line of code.
Paste it in with prompt: “hey there buddy, could you install this globally for me”, then paste your authorisation code
Step 3: Check the connection
Prompt:
“Backtest a simple strategy on BTCUSDT 1 hour, just to make sure we’re connected”
Step 4: Set it hunting
Prompt:
“Research trading concepts, build strategies and backtest each on BTCUSDT 1 hour with fees on, full history. Run every 15 minutes for the next 8 hours. Reject anything under 100 trades, over 20% drawdown, profit factor under 1.1, or that fails to beat buy and hold. No multiple timeframes, no trailing stops. Log every result and show me the survivors”
Step 5: Verify the best one
Pine Editor on http://tradingview.com, paste, add to chart, check the numbers match.
Step 6: Forward test 3 months
Then connect your broker through http://trigger.trade.
A cheap model that survives the filters beats an expensive one that doesn’t