One Year of the KAS Bot: +52.83% on 1,000 USDT
KAS USDT BOT Annual Results
@KAS_USDT_BOT Annual Results
Time to review the results of KASPA public portfolio
It’s time to review the results of the experiment that started exactly a year ago, on October 7, 2024. To recap: I put 1000 USDT into a public portfolio and handed it over to @KAS_USDT_BOT to trade Kaspa. The Bitcoin figures shown in the video are not part of this experiment.
You can see the outcomes on screen: 17,124 completed trades brought in 528.37 USDT, or 52.83%. I’d say the result isn’t ideal. The year before, I was around 100%, and I initially aimed to repeat that. But it is what it is. There are two main reasons why the outcome fell short of expectations:
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In October 2024, the experiment started smoothly. I set the baseline settings from the start and didn’t touch anything for a month - just watched the balance grow steadily. That was the plan for the whole year.
Then Trump won the US elections, and November saw a strong pump followed by a sharp drop. Volatility was huge - my record for number of trades fell in that month. It alone delivered a 12% gain. That brought some euphoria, a bit of greed, and a desire to show more than the bot can realistically deliver. As a result, in December I broke my own risk management rules, increased the order size, and thanks to the Kraken listing we caught another pump. I expected it to exceed the previous one, but it ended up lower, and I didn’t reduce the order size in time.
Starting in February, I had to work with a smaller order than I should have, and in the following months I occasionally got more hands-on with the bot than I originally wanted, just to keep showing returns publicly. In hindsight, the best move would’ve been to let the bot run on its own and not get greedy with order sizing - I’m confident the results would’ve been better.
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Volatility dropped sharply from the second half of the summer, bottomed in September, and is still ongoing. Because of that, I missed out on roughly 10–12% of potential returns. But the market isn’t a bank deposit or a vending machine. Sometimes it’s just a waiting game.
Bottom line: not a perfect result, but it’s the honest one. Thanks to everyone following along!
Since it’s been exactly a year, I’m going to adjust how I publicly track and present the portfolio. I’ll share details soon.
Originally posted in Telegram channel.
