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Portfolio Heat & Correlation: The Illusion of Diversification
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Most crypto traders believe they are diversified when they hold ten different altcoins. They see different names, different logos, and different use cases on thei...
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Slippage and Market Depth in Crypto Trading
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Most traders focus on the chart. They see a breakout, a crossing moving average, or a perfect RSI level. They as...
By Tommy Tietze
Why Choose unCoded Trading Bot
We only make money when you do. Self-hosted, non-custodial crypto bot trading with profit-sharing pricing, honest backtests, and real strategy depth. ...
By Felix Götz
Fear & Greed Index in Crypto Trading
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG The crypto market does not only move on data. It moves on emotion. One week, people are afraid that Bitcoin is f...
By Tommy Tietze
Crypto Portfolio Diversification Guide
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG A portfolio with twelve coins can still be one trade. That sounds exaggerated until Bitcoin drops five percent a...
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Order Types in Crypto Trading
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Most traders spend weeks thinking about what to buy. Then they enter the trade with the first order button they ...
By Tommy Tietze
When Germany's Crypto Tax Holiday Ends: What the Proposed Repeal of the One-Year Holding Period Means for Trading Bots
By Felix Götz – Co-Founder and CTO of ArrowTrade AG, building unCoded since 2016 in crypto trading. Disclaimer: This article is a fact-based overview...
By Felix Götz
Crypto Taxes in Switzerland: Trader Guide
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Switzerland has a strong reputation in crypto. That reputation is deserved in many areas. The country has seriou...
By Tommy Tietze
DAC8 Crypto Reporting: What Traders Should Know
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Crypto is moving into the same world as bank accounts, securities accounts and payment platforms. For years, man...
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Crypto Correlation: Why Altcoins Follow BTC
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG A crypto portfolio can look diversified on paper and still behave like one single trade. Ten coins. Five sectors...
By Tommy Tietze
MACD Explained for Crypto Spot Traders
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Most traders meet MACD very early. It is already there in almost every charting tool. It looks clean, it is easy...
By Tommy Tietze
What 10 Coins Down 90%+ from Their All-Time Highs Tell You About Crypto Trading Bot Strategy in 2026
By Felix Götz – Co-Founder and CTO of ArrowTrade AG, building unCoded since 2016 in crypto trading. Disclosure: I'm Co-Founder and CTO of ArrowTrade ...
By Felix Götz
Crypto on the Balance Sheet: CFO Guide
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Most companies think about crypto too late. They first ask whether Bitcoin, Ethereum or stablecoins could make s...
By Tommy Tietze
Realistic Returns from Crypto Trading Bots in 2026: What the Data Actually Shows
By Felix Götz – Co-Founder and CTO of ArrowTrade AG, building unCoded since 2016 in crypto trading. Disclosure: I'm Co-Founder and CTO of ArrowTrade ...
By Felix Götz
Ethereum vs. Bitcoin for Spot Traders
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Bitcoin and Ethereum are usually treated like they belong in the same mental folder. Two large crypto assets. Tw...
By Tommy Tietze
Market Maker vs. Taker: Crypto Fees Explained
Market Maker vs. Taker: Crypto Fees Explained By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Most traders spend too much time looking at the entry signal and t...
By Tommy Tietze
3Commas vs Cryptohopper vs Bitsgap vs Wundertrading: An Honest 2026 Comparison of Crypto Exchange API Trading Bot Platforms
By Felix Götz – Co-Founder and CTO of ArrowTrade AG, building unCoded since 2016 in crypto trading. Disclosure: I'm Co-Founder and CTO of ArrowTrade ...
By Felix Götz
Crypto Drawdown Explained
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Drawdown is one of the most honest risk metrics in trading. It does not care how good the strategy sounded. It d...
By Tommy Tietze
How to Validate a Crypto Bot Strategy Out-of-Sample: Practical Rules and Minimum Sample Sizes
By Felix Götz – Co-Founder and CTO of ArrowTrade AG, building unCoded since 2016 in crypto trading. Before we start: What follows is a practical meth...
By Felix Götz
MiCA Explained for Crypto Investors
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Crypto regulation used to feel like background noise. For many investors, the market seemed to move faster than ...
By Tommy Tietze
How to Tell If a Crypto Trading Bot Strategy Actually Works (Or Just Got Lucky in 2023)
By Felix Götz – Co-Founder and CTO of ArrowTrade AG, building unCoded since 2016 in crypto trading. Before we start: What follows is real backtest ...
By Felix Götz
Systematic vs. Emotional Trading
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Most traders do not lose control in calm markets. They lose control when the market starts moving fast, when a p...
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Crypto Volatility Explained
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Crypto volatility is usually discussed in the wrong tone. Some people treat it like a warning label. Others trea...
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Are Crypto Trading Bots Profitable in 2026? An Honest Answer After Five Years of Running Them
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Before we start: What follows isn't financial advice. It's the brutal, mostly undocumented ...
By Felix Götz
USDT, USDC and FDUSD Explained
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Stablecoins are often treated as if they were simply “digital dollars”. That is understandable, but it is too su...
By Tommy Tietze
Position Sizing in Crypto Trading
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Many traders spend hours searching for the perfect entry. They compare RSI, MACD, moving averages, trend lines, ...
By Tommy TietzeRSI in Crypto Trading Explained
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG The RSI is one of those indicators almost every trader has seen. One line. Two levels. 70 at the top. 30 at the ...
By Tommy Tietze
How to Build a Crypto Trading Bot That Actually Works in Production
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. I've had this conversation probably thirty times in the last eighteen months. Someone on Twi...
By Felix Götz
What Happens During an Exchange Hack?
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG An exchange hack sounds to many like a problem for the exchange. But it is not just that. When a crypto exchan...
By Tommy Tietze
unCoded Is an IQ Test. That's Not a Marketing Line.
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Most trading bot platforms optimize for the lowest-friction onboarding possible. Three click...
By Felix Götz
Crypto Taxes Germany 2026
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Crypto taxes are no longer a niche topic. Anyone trading Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, or other crypto asset...
By Tommy Tietze
Trading XRP with a Bot: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why It's Different from BTC
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Ripple, XRP is one of the most polarizing assets in crypto. To one group, it's the future of...
By Felix Götz
The rsETH Heist: Turning Bridges Into Exit Liquidity
On April 17–18, 2026, roughly 116,500 rsETH – about 292 million USD at the time – were effectively “created” via an exploit on KelpDAO’s rsETH bridge ...
By Tommy Tietze
Five Years of Running Trading Bots: Six Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me at the Start
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. I started running crypto trading bots in 2020. Before that, I'd been trading crypto manually...
By Felix Götz
The canBuyDown Feature: Why unCoded's Approach to Buying During Crashes Is Different
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. There's a feature in unCoded called canBuyDown . It's a boolean – either true or false. Thr...
By Felix Götz
unCoded Expands: 16 Major Exchanges Now in Internal Alpha
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Something important to share about where unCoded is heading. Until now, unCoded has supporte...
By Felix Götz
Realistic Trading Bot Profits: What You Can Expect in 2026
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG "How much profit does a trading bot make?" is the most common question we get from prospects. The honest answer...
By Tommy Tietze
The 97% Rule: Why Most Binance Tokens Are Dying (And Why Your Bot Can't Save Them)
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. I'm going to state something uncomfortable that most people in the crypto trading bot indust...
By Felix Götz
Crypto Trading Bots Won't Make You Rich – But They Can Pay Your Bills
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Every time I see an ad for a crypto trading bot, it promises something absurd. 30% monthly r...
By Felix Götz
Why Your Crypto Trading Bot Backtest Fails: Test Against 100 Charts, Not One
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Every backtest you've ever run lies to you in the same specific way. You picked a token. You...
By Felix Götz
Why Crypto Trading Bot Subscriptions Are More Expensive Than They Look
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Most retail traders evaluate trading bot pricing backwards. They look at "30% profit share" ...
By Felix Götz
The Swarm Intelligence: Why unCoded Is Built Different
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Most trading bots work on an implicit assumption: that one company with one team can design ...
By Felix Götz
Why 99% of My Trading Bot Customers Make Me Zero Money (And Why That's the Point)
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Here's something most founders wouldn't write publicly: unCoded is structured so that around...
By Felix Götz
Bitcoin Trading vs Holding: The Honest Math No One Wants to Show You
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Let me start with the conclusion because it's going to bother some people: for most retail t...
By Felix Götz
AI Crypto Trading Bots - Are Mostly Marketing. Here's What's Actually Going On.
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. In 2026 the crypto trading bot market is flooded with products that call themselves AI-power...
By Felix Götz
My Honest Experience with Crypto Trading Bots on a Normal Portfolio – Here’s What They Actually Cost Me
By Felix Götz – founder of unCoded, trading crypto since 2016. Before we start: What follows isn't financial advice. It's the actual math from runnin...
By Felix Götz
Trading Bot for Beginners: The 5 Most Common Mistakes
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Automated crypto trading sounds tempting. Set up the bot, let it run, make money. That is how it works in theory...
By Tommy Tietze
DCA Bot vs. Grid Bot vs. HFT Bot: Which Strategy Works When?
By Felix, Founder of unCoded and Crypto Trader since 2016. Most comparisons put DCA against Grid. Two options, one recommendation, done. What is com...
By Felix Götz
Why Your Trading Backtest Lied to You – And What It Cost Me to Find Out
By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading since 2016. I've run a trading bot in live markets since 2020. Before that I backtested strategies for months. ...
By Felix Götz
3Commas vs Cryptohopper vs Bitsgap vs unCoded: The Honest Trading Bot Comparison 2026
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Transparency note: unCoded is our own product. This comparison is written as honestly as possible regardless, in...
By Tommy Tietze
3Commas vs unCoded (2026): Which Crypto Trading Bot Is Actually Worth It?
By Felix – founder of unCoded. I'll tell you upfront: I built one of these products. Read accordingly. Let me be direct before anything else. I'm the ...
By Felix Götz
What Is a Crypto Trading Bot? A Simple Explanation for 2026
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG A crypto trading bot is software that automatically buys and sells cryptocurrencies. You define the rules, the b...
By Tommy Tietze
How to Set Up a Binance API Key for Trading Bots: The Complete 2026 Security Guide
By Tommy Tietze, CEO of ArrowTrade AG Your Binance account holds 10,000 USD. You want to connect a trading bot. The bot needs an API key to trade on y...
By Tommy Tietze
Best Crypto Trading Bot Switzerland 2026: What Actually Matters If You're Trading from Swiss Soil
By Felix – founder of unCoded, ArrowTrade AG, Switzerland. Trading crypto since 2016. If you're based in Switzerland and looking for a crypto trading ...
By Felix Götz
Why Profit-Sharing Beats Subscription: Trading Bot Pricing Models 2026 Explained
Imagine you go to an asset manager and they tell you: my fee is 600 dollars a year, regardless of whether I make you money or lose it. If your portfol...
By Tommy Tietze
Non-Custodial Crypto Trading Bots: The Complete Guide for 2026
Anyone who had money on FTX in 2022 knows the answer to a question almost nobody asked before: Who actually owns my capital when it sits on a platform...
By Tommy Tietze
Build a Crypto Trading Bot Without Code: The Honest Guide Nobody Else Will Write
I've seen the pitch. "Describe your strategy in plain English. Get a complete trading bot in 10 seconds. No code. No API docs. Free." It sounds good. ...
By Felix Götz
The Digital Euro 2026: Infrastructure Reality Over Surveillance Myths
Many founders hear the term digital euro and immediately think of state surveillance. They misunderstand the project completely. We are looking at the...
By Tommy Tietze
From Zero Lines of Code to Building One of the Most Complex Crypto Trading Bots in the Space: My Story
By Felix – founder of unCoded, ArrowTrade AG. Born 1999. Started coding at 17. Still haven't stopped. I want to tell you something that most founders ...
By Felix Götz
Crypto Trading Bot Strategy: Why 90% of Users Get It Wrong
By Felix – crypto trader since 2016, founder of unCoded. I've watched more people blow accounts with bots than without them. Here's why – and what act...
By Felix Götz
Crypto Trading Bot in 2026: What you really need to know – and why most lists are lying to you
By Felix – crypto trader since 2016, founder of unCoded. I've used almost every bot on these lists at some point. Some of them with real money. This i...
By Felix Götz
unCoded: The Most Comprehensive Crypto Trading Bot Built for Traders Who Actually Know What They're Doing
Let me start with a question. When was the last time you looked at a crypto trading bot and thought: this was actually built by someone who trades? No...
By Felix Götz
OBV Indicator Explained: On-Balance Volume Trading Strategy 2026
OBV Indicator Explained: On-Balance Volume Trading Strategy 2026 By Felix – founder of unCoded, trading crypto and equities since 2016. I've been buil...
By Felix Götz
Understanding the Crypto Bubble: What I've Seen With My Own Eyes
I still remember exactly how it felt. Late 2017. Portfolio green every single day. Telegram going off every hour with the next 10x gem. My grandma was...
By Felix Götz
The New unCoded Dashboard: Full Transparency for Your Spot Trading Bot
The New unCoded Dashboard: Full Transparency for Your Spot Trading Bot Most crypto trading bots operate on the same principle: you connect an API, the...
By Tommy Tietze
unCoded Roadmap 2026 – Dashboard, Multi-Bot and the Futures Step
The trading bot we want to use ourselves every day If you've been in crypto for a while, you know this feeling: you find a tool that sounds perfect on...
By Tommy Tietze
30 Days With unCoded: What It Really Feels Like to Let a Bot Trade for You
On paper, trading bots make perfect sense. Markets are volatile. Bots don’t sleep. Algorithms don’t panic-sell at 3 a.m. or FOMO into green candles. Y...
By Tommy Tietze
3Commas, Cryptohopper and unCoded – why this Binance trading bot takes a different path
If you’ve ever googled “crypto trading bot”, you’ve almost certainly run into 3Commas and Cryptohopper. They’re big, feature-rich cloud platforms – an...
By Tommy Tietze
Why the unCoded Trading Bot Excels – A Nerd’s Perspective
The unCoded high-frequency trading bot stands out by bringing professional-grade trading techniques into the hands of everyday crypto users. Unlike ge...
By Tommy Tietze
The Beginner’s Guide to Safe Binance Trading Bots (Without Blowing Up Your Account)
If you’ve been around crypto long enough, you’ve seen both sides of trading bots: screenshots of insane profits, and horror stories of wiped account...
By Tommy Tietze