I built an AI trading agent powered by Claude and n8n that reads the market like a human — context, sentiment, and live news included.

Most trading bots follow rules. The one I built with Claude and n8n understands context, sentiment, and breaking news. Been building trading bots for years. The execution side? Handled. Risk management? Sorted. But the part that always bugged me was the analysis. That was still me, sitting at a screen, reading charts and news and vibes.

So I built something to potentially fix that. An AI that actually thinks and feels the markets before it trades.

what it actually does

Every hour, a workflow wakes up and pulls live data: financial headlines, market news, macro sentiment scores, and the full economic calendar. It checks what positions are already open on MT5. Then it hands everything to an LLM like GPT or Claude and asks one question: what should we do right now?

The AI comes back with a decision. Buy this, sell that, close this one, here’s why. That gets routed straight to a MetaTrader 5 EA that executes it live. No clicking. No babysitting. Runs 24/7 or as long as the markets are open.

the part I’m actually proud of

Most AI trading setups I’ve seen are blind to time. They’ll tell you to avoid trading because “big news is coming” when that news dropped three hours ago.

Mine doesn’t do that. Every calendar event gets a real-time status tag: past, imminent, just_released, whatever fits. GPT only acts on what’s actually relevant right now. That one change makes the whole thing way smarter in practice.

where this is going

This is agent #1. The plan is to build 10-20 of these, each with a different strategy or market focus. Then have a layer on top that watches which agents are performing and allocates more capital to the winners.

Eventually I want to run the best ones on a couple of prop firm challenges. Fully automated, fully documented. We’ll see how it goes.

what you get

The full package is on Gumroad. Three files: the n8n brain workflow, the signal handler that connects it to MT5, and the MQL5 EA that executes everything. You’ll need n8n, MT5, and API keys for a few data sources. Setup takes about an hour if you know your way around n8n, or message me if you need help getting set up.