An anonymous journal on building a reinforcement-learning trading system for crypto markets — about method, infrastructure, and honest failures. No signals, no returns, not investment advice.https://candleatlas.com/https://candleatlas.com/en/the-early-stopping-trap/https://candleatlas.com/en/the-early-stopping-trap/Early stopping is supposed to save you from burning compute on a model that's finished learning. For a long stretch, it was the thing burning my compute — by killing good agents before they ever got good.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://candleatlas.com/en/what-a-99-percent-drawdown-taught-me/https://candleatlas.com/en/what-a-99-percent-drawdown-taught-me/The first trading bot I ever shipped to a live account lost almost everything. Win rate: 25%. Maximum drawdown: 99.99%. It did not blow up because the market was cruel. It blew up because I built it the way most people build their first bot — as a prototype held together by my ow…Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT