Nero X: Two Months of Paper Trading, +2.0%, and an Edge That Landed Right on the Backtest

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I've been building trading bots for a while. Nero X is the newest, and I just finished two months of paper trading with it. It came out green, the per-trade edge landed almost exactly where the backtest predicted, and it ran 43 sessions without a single crash. Here's the full story — what it does, what it earned, and how it proved itself.What Nero X doesNero X trades BSOL, the Bitwise Solana ETF, on the Alpaca API. It's long only and intraday only — flat every night and every weekend, by design. There's no overnight exposure, and an independent guard thread makes sure nothing stays open past 15:55 ET.Every morning at 10:30 ET it scores the day. The inputs are how Bitcoin and Solana moved during the first trading hour — BTC's first-hour return and acceleration, how far SOL is lagging BTC, where SOL sits in its own range, and the previous day's Nasdaq close. A frozen logistic model turns those into a score, and the bot only trades the top ~20% of days. The rest of the time it prints SKIP and stays in cash. That selectivity is the whole point: it waits for the setup it was built for and ignores everything else.When it trades, the rules are fixed and simple:Entry: a passive limit order...

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