Imagine building your own AI-powered trading bot that works around the clock, analyzing crypto markets and executing trades while you sleep. This book offers a grounded, start-to-finish guide to creating automated trading systems — from basic moving average bots to models incorporating sentiment analysis. But before you dream of passive profits, you'll face the hard truths: cryptocurrency is exceptionally volatile, most algorithmic traders lose money, and scams promising guaranteed returns are everywhere. With clear explanations and no assumption of prior coding or finance experience, you'll learn how bots actually work, how to backtest strategies honestly, and why risk management is your most important algorithm. Every chapter stresses that past performance never predicts future results, that leverage magnifies losses, and that you should only ever risk money you can afford to lose. This is not a get-rich-quick blueprint; it is a realistic, educational roadmap for anyone curious about combining AI with crypto trading — with eyes wide open to the risks. Part of The AI Crypto Library.