Use Claude to Build an AI Trading Bot: 90 Days with Stocks and Prediction Markets

You've seen the screenshots. $300 turned into $11,550. A "quant mesh" bot printing money while someone sleeps. You opened Twitter, saw the numbers, and thought: "How do I build that?" Then you searched Amazon and found 50 books that promise "AI trading" but deliver recycled crypto theory and zero working code. This book is different. You will build a working AI trading bot this weekend. Not theory. Not "concepts." A real Python bot connected to live market data through Claude and Unusual Whales MCP, placing paper trades on Alpaca, and validated with Monte Carlo backtesting before you risk a single dollar. By page 50, your bot is screening stocks. By page 100, it's trading options flow. By page 150, it's betting on Polymarket. This 2nd edition fixes what made the first wave of AI trading books age fast: fake-free tools, broken setup commands, and Python steps that assumed you already knew what you were doing. You get the actual 2026 stack: free-first paper trading with Alpaca and public market data, paid Unusual Whales options flow when the signal is worth graduating into, and Claude Code creating the files, writing the Python, running the scripts, and debugging errors with you. Every bot in this book comes with a free companion GitHub repo: complete, runnable code, cloneable and running offline with zero API keys. Inside you'll find: Build a stock screener bot in 45 minutes flat. Wire Claude into live options flow and auto-trade whale moves. Backtest with Monte Carlo simulations (1,000 runs, not guesswork). Build a prediction-market bot for Polymarket and Kalshi. Run a multi-agent "hedge fund" with 4 specialized AI traders on your laptop. Go live safely: a 90-day plan from paper trading to real capital with hard stop-loss rules. Avoid the 5 failures that destroy most AI trading bots (Chapter 11 is brutally honest). Use the full Python-with-Claude-Code workflow so you are not stuck staring at a blank file. Every week you wait, another 5 books drop on this topic with stale pricing, wrong install commands, and recycled 2024 assumptions. The free-first stack is real. The paid tools are named before you need them. The only thing between you and a working trading bot is this book. Scroll up and click Buy Now.