Ghosty Bots

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Executive Summary

Ghosty Bots is a commercial trading automation platform focused on the Cardano ecosystem. It enables traders to deploy, monitor, and scale multiple automated strategies across multiple wallets with minimal overhead.

Positioning & Brand

Elevator Pitch

Audience

• Active Traders who want consistent execution on Cardano
• Strategy Tinkerers who test, iterate, and optimize
• Funds & Desks needing multi-wallet orchestration and logs

Tone & Voice

• Clear, no hype, data-first
• Commercial polish without jargon
• Trust through transparency (controls, limits, logs)

Visual Cues

Dark UI, neon accents, clean spacing, and information-dense screens. Use green for confirmations, amber for warnings, red for critical risk events.

Product Overview

Ghosty Bots provides a multi-wallet automation hub tailored for the Cardano ecosystem. Users create "Bots" that connect to a supported wallet, select a strategy template, and configure risk controls. Bots run continuously and can be paused, edited, and cloned.

• Works natively with Cardano tokens and markets
• Single interface to deploy many strategies across many wallets
• Auditable activity stream for every order, fill, and balance change

Key Features

Architecture

Core Components

• Control Plane: Manages bots, configs, auth, and scheduling
• Execution Engine: Listens for signals, builds orders, routes to venues, enforces guardrails
• Data Layer: Market data adapters, balance/position sync, and historical store for backtesting
• Connectors: Wallet and DEX/CEX integrations specific to Cardano and supported venues
• Observability: Metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards

Reliability Patterns

• Idempotent order submission with retry and dedupe keys
• Circuit breakers for venue outages or degraded data
• Graceful degradation to risk-off (flat) when thresholds are breached

Configuration Example (YAML)

bot:
  name: "ADA-Grid-01"
  wallet: "Treasury-Alpha"
  strategy: "grid"
  params:
    grid_size: 12
    grid_spacing: 0.8%
    base_allocation: 1500
  risk:
    max_daily_loss_pct: 3.0
    max_drawdown_pct: 12.0
    position_cap_pct: 35.0
    cool_down_minutes: 45
  execution:
    slippage_bps: 15
    partial_fills: true
    time_in_force: "ioc"

Security & Compliance

• Secrets Handling: Store API keys and seeds encrypted. Role-based access for team use
• Least Privilege: Scope permissions per venue; prefer trade-only keys where possible
• 2FA: Require 2FA for admin actions and withdrawals (if applicable)
• Audit Trails: Immutable, exportable, time-stamped logs
• Data Protection: TLS in transit; encryption at rest for credentials and PII

Setup & Onboarding

1. Create an account and complete basic profile
2. Add one or more wallets; assign labels and base currency
3. Create your first Bot using a template, set parameters and risk limits
4. Run in Paper mode to validate behavior
5. Promote to Live when satisfied, with alerts enabled

Quickstart

1) Create a DCA Bot

Strategy: DCA
Token: ADA
Interval: 4h
Order Size: 250 ADA
Max Spend / Day: 1000 ADA
Stop Conditions: daily loss > 3% OR drawdown > 10%

2) Create a Grid Bot

Strategy: GRID
Bounds: 0.80 - 1.05 ADA
Levels: 15
Per-Level Size: 120 ADA
Rebalancing: enabled
Kill-Switch: drawdown > 12%

3) Configure Alerts

Notify: Email + Telegram
Events:
  - New Fill
  - Breach: Max Daily Loss
  - Bot Paused / Resumed
  - Config Change (with diff)

Strategy Library

DCA (Dollar-Cost Averaging)

Accumulates over time on a fixed cadence. Optional dynamic throttles during volatility spikes.

Grid

Places layered buy/sell orders within a band to monetize oscillations. Works best in range-bound conditions.

Momentum / Breakout

Enters on strength with trailing exits. Requires slippage controls and fail-safes for fakeouts.

Mean Reversion

Fades deviations from a moving average with strict stop-losses.

Custom

Bring signals via webhooks or scripts; the Execution Engine handles orders and risk controls.

Risk Management

• Per-bot max drawdown and daily loss caps
• Kill-switch to flatten and pause on breach
• Exposure limits per wallet, token, and strategy
• Cool-downs after losses or volatility spikes
• Time-of-day windows to avoid illiquid periods

Backtesting & Paper Trading

Use historical data to validate strategy logic and parameters. Promote successful configs to Paper mode, then to Live mode with small size before scaling.

Integrations

Ghosty Bots supports bringing signals via APIs or webhooks and routing orders to Cardano venues through wallet connectors.

Operations & Monitoring

• Real-time dashboard: P&L, positions, balances, fills
• Health checks: data latency, order rejects, venue status
• Alert routing: Email, Telegram, Discord, webhooks
• Change management: config diffs, approvals (optional), rollbacks

Incident Playbook

1. Auto pause bots on critical breach or venue outage
2. Notify owners and post diagnostic summary
3. Evaluate market state; decide on resume or safe-stop (flat)
4. Record post-mortem with metrics and fixes

Troubleshooting

Orders not filling

• Check slippage limits and venue liquidity
• Increase time-in-force or allow partial fills
• Review kill-switch / cool-down state

Bot paused unexpectedly

• See Risk log for breach events
• Verify API/connector health and wallet permissions

Data mismatch vs. wallet

• Run a full resync; reconcile deposits/withdrawals
• Confirm decimals and token metadata

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Ghosty Bots custodial?

Ghosty Bots is designed to work with wallet connectors. Custody and permissions depend on the specific connector and venue configuration used in your deployment.

Does it give financial advice?

No. Ghosty Bots is a tool for executing user-defined strategies and rules. It does not provide investment advice.

Can I run multiple strategies per wallet?

Yes, each Bot is isolated with its own risk limits and allocation.

Legal & Disclaimers

• This software is provided "as-is" with no guarantees of profit
• Digital assets are volatile; never risk funds you cannot afford to lose
• Users are responsible for tax reporting and compliance in their jurisdiction
• Ghosty Bots does not hold customer funds and does not act as a broker-dealer or investment advisor

Roadmap

• Q4: Strategy templates v2, improved backtesting UX
• Q1: Additional wallet connectors, portfolio rules
• Q2: Team roles, approvals, and release channels

Release Notes

• v0.9 - New bot wizard, kill-switch, CSV exports
• v0.8 - Paper trading, alerts, audit trail
• v0.7 - Multi-wallet dashboard and allocations

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