> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://uncoded.ch/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Welcome to unCoded

> The self-hosted automated crypto trading suite for serious operators — author strategies without code, automate execution across 17 exchanges, and stay in full control from your phone.

<Info>
  **unCoded is a complete trading suite for crypto operators who want full control of their strategy, full visibility into every trade, and full ownership of their funds.**

  You connect your own exchange. You design your own rules. You run the system on your own server. Nobody at unCoded ever touches your capital.
</Info>

## What is unCoded?

unCoded is a **modular automated trading platform** for retail and advanced crypto traders. Six tightly-coordinated software modules give you a complete production-grade workflow — from authoring a strategy in a visual editor, to validating it against historical data, to running it live across **17 production-ready exchanges** with serious risk-management built in.

It is **not** a managed SaaS bot. There is no shared platform that holds your API keys. There is no opaque "AI engine." Every condition that produces a trade is something you authored or knowingly accepted, and every trade is recorded back to you in real time.

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  <Card title="Self-hosted" icon="server">
    Runs on your own server. Your API keys never leave your environment.
  </Card>

  <Card title="No code required" icon="wand-magic-sparkles">
    Build strategies visually with drag-and-drop indicators, conditions, and triggers.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Honest by design" icon="shield-check">
    No guaranteed-yield claims. No "AI alpha." Just a disciplined execution layer for the rules you author.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Who is unCoded for?

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  <Card title="Retail traders" icon="user">
    You've outgrown SaaS bots. You want to see and edit every rule that produces a trade. You're willing to spend an evening setting up a small server.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Multi-exchange operators" icon="globe">
    You already trade on more than one venue. You want one operational model across all of them, with consistent logs, dashboards, and failure modes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="System builders" icon="code">
    You want to express your own indicators, your own conditions, your own trigger rules — but you don't want to build a trading engine from scratch. unCoded gives you the engine.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## The six modules at a glance

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  <Card title="TradingBot" icon="robot" href="/trading-bot-the-execution-engine">
    The execution engine. Places, monitors, and manages every order on your exchange — disciplined, around the clock, never tired.
  </Card>

  <Card title="TelegramBot" icon="paper-plane" href="/telegram-bot-your-trade-close-notifier">
    Your mobile heads-up display. Trade notifications, system alerts, and daily summaries delivered to your Telegram chat.
  </Card>

  <Card title="SignalEditor" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/signal-editor-author-and-run-custom-strategies">
    A visual strategy builder. Compose **136 indicators**, **41 conditions**, and **4 trigger modes** into your own deterministic rules.
  </Card>

  <Card title="SignalsBot" icon="satellite-dish" href="/signals-bot-your-inbound-webhook-gateway">
    The integration layer for incoming signals. Connect TradingView alerts, custom Python scripts, or your own external sources — all authenticated and logged.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Backtester" icon="flask" href="/backtester-validate-before-you-risk-capital">
    Historical simulation lab. Validate any strategy before it touches real capital, with conservative slippage and latency models.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Dashboard" icon="gauge" href="/Dashboard — Your Operator Cockpit">
    Operator's web cockpit. Live positions, performance, kill switch, configuration — everything in one authenticated browser interface.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What unCoded explicitly is **not**

<Warning>
  We say this up front because it saves you weeks of misalignment.

  * ❌ **Not a guaranteed-yield product.** The bot guarantees consistency of execution, not profitability. Markets are variable; no honest tool can promise a number.
  * ❌ **Not a managed service.** You run the entire stack. We never have access to your funds.
  * ❌ **Not a high-frequency trading platform.** Round-trip latency is in the tens to low-hundreds of milliseconds, not microseconds.
  * ❌ **Not "set and forget."** Healthy operation requires you to glance at the dashboard or your Telegram chat regularly. The kill switch is a tool you'll actually use.
  * ❌ **Not for users with less than \~`$1,500`.** The smallest pre-built mode (`MinimalMoney`) needs that floor; below it the math breaks.
</Warning>

## What you get when you start

<Steps>
  <Step title="A complete trading stack on your own server">
    A `4 vCPU / 8 GB / 80 GB NVMe SSD` VPS at any reputable host (`€10–€15/month`) runs the full suite cleanly with multi-exchange support.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Connection to 17 production-ready exchanges">
    Binance, Binance.US, Bybit, Bybit EU (MiCA), OKX, KuCoin, MEXC, Gate.io, HTX, BingX, Coinbase Advanced, Kraken, Bitvavo, Bitfinex, Poloniex, BitMart, Crypto.com Exchange.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Nine pre-built trading modes">
    Capital sweet spots from approximately **`$1,500`** (MinimalMoney) up to **`$25,000`** (LongTimeLong). Pick one, allocate capital, you're trading.
  </Step>

  <Step title="A strategy authoring environment">
    Drag indicators, wire conditions, choose a trigger, click Start. No code, no compile.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Real risk management">
    Trailing stops, sell ladders, capital allocation in four enforced layers, exposure caps on three axes, a system-wide kill switch.
  </Step>

  <Step title="A simple, honest pricing model">
    `30%` of realized profit at start, trending to a **`20%` floor**. **No fixed monthly fee.** No profit, no payment.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## How long until I'm trading?

<Tip>
  **Half a day to first live trade.** Plan the time as follows:

  * 30 min — provision a VPS, basic OS hardening
  * 60 min — install the unCoded stack
  * 30 min — create exchange API keys with safe permissions
  * 60 min — author or import your first strategy
  * 60 min — backtest, then shadow-mode for a day
  * Day 2 — promote to live with a fraction of intended capital

  Read the [Quickstart](/quickstart) for the full step-by-step.
</Tip>

## The three principles unCoded was designed around

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  <Accordion title="1. You own the rules" icon="scale-balanced">
    Every condition that produces a trade is something you authored in the SignalEditor or knowingly imported (e.g., from TradingView). No hidden logic. No proprietary "AI" that decides without you. You can see every block, every threshold, every wiring — at any time.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="2. You own the funds" icon="vault">
    Your funds remain on your exchange accounts. The bot has API access to trade them; with withdrawal permission **disabled** on your API keys (the only safe configuration), the bot can only buy and sell — never move funds out. unCoded never holds your keys, never sees your balance, never sees your trades.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="3. You see everything" icon="eye">
    Every trade traceable to the signal that produced it. Every signal traceable to the bar and the indicator values that fired it. Every operator action logged in an audit trail. The dashboard shows every panel; the Telegram chat shows every notification. There is no hidden state.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## What's next

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="forward" href="/quickstart-from-zero-to-your-first-live-trade">
    The 30-minute path from zero to your first running strategy.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Glossary" icon="book" href="/glossary-every-term-defined-in-plain-language">
    Every term used in this documentation, explained in plain trader language.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Pricing" icon="dollar-sign" href="/pricing">
    The complete cost breakdown — license, VPS, exchange fees, and what to budget.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Why unCoded" icon="circle-question" href="/why-choose-un-coded">
    The architectural and philosophical case for self-hosted, code-first trading.
  </Card>
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<Check>
  **Ready to start?** The shortest path is the [Quickstart](/quickstart). The most thorough preparation is to skim this entire site once, then come back to the Quickstart with context. Either works.
</Check>