Agent Field Report: AI Trading Bot Free — Week of 2026-09-14
Last week, we set out to test the viability of a simple BTC sentiment strategy using an AI trading bot free setup on Assistant Hub's platform. Our goal was to see if a basic agent, using publicly available data and local compute, could generate actionable alerts. The results? Our BTC sentiment agent fired 3 alerts in its first week of operation. Two of those alerts were directionally correct, identifying profitable entry and exit points within a 24-hour window.
The Setup
For this experiment, we deployed a custom "Sentiment-Driven DCA" agent designed to monitor Bitcoin's market sentiment. The agent's core input was the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, pulled hourly via a public API, combined with real-time BTC/USDT price data from Binance. The entire setup was configured within Assistant Hub's free tier, relying on a local Ollama instance running Mistral 7B on a spare machine for all large language model (LLM) processing. This kept our operational costs for the LLM at zero, making it a genuinely free AI trading bot solution for the intelligence layer.
The deployment process was straightforward. We used a pre-built DCA template in Assistant Hub's Strategy Lab, adapting it to integrate the Fear & Greed API and our local Ollama endpoint. From initial concept to live monitoring, the agent was operational in under 10 minutes. Our objective was not