AlgoTrade India — an intraday bot that measures itself honestly

A free, serverless NSE intraday trading bot that runs entirely on GitHub Actions — and publishes every trade, every rejected signal and every losing experiment in the repo. No server, no laptop, no broker. Paper money only.

Most trading-bot repos show you a backtest. This one shows you what happened after: v1 lost ₹11,317 because its research charged ₹50 a trade and reality charged ₹421; v2’s whole premise turned out to be negative before costs; the current 0.6% scalping setup is down ₹22,761 after 37 trades. Each result is measured, written down, and turned into a test so it cannot quietly come back.

What you get

• Runs itself. A scan every 15 minutes in NSE hours, a research job every Saturday, a walk-forward re-fit every Sunday — all on free GitHub Actions.
• A real cost model. Brokerage, STT, exchange and SEBI fees, stamp duty, GST and slippage are charged on every simulated fill, from one file shared by the backtest and the live engine, so the two cannot disagree again.
• Self-tuning that cannot cheat. The weekly walk-forward may only move the three entry thresholds inside…