{
  "id": 15842620,
  "title": "Chainlink Trading Bot: What to Backtest First",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/chainlink-trading-bot-what-to-backtest-first",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-21T04:06:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/botlab/chainlink-trading-bot-what-to-backtest-first-5f0l"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Before running a trading bot on Chainlink (LINK), it is essential to backtest three key factors: realistic fees, slippage, funding costs, the number of trades, and the maximum drawdown. A trending coin, such as LINK, often experiences increased volatility, altered liquidity conditions, and heightened bias from market excitement. This guide explains what to check before deploying a bot on a real account and emphasizes that LINK's price trajectory is irrelevant to the testing process.",
  "summary": "Before you run a trading bot on Chainlink (LINK), backtest three things first: whether the strategy survives realistic fees, slippage and funding costs, whether it has enough trades to mean anything, and how deep its worst drawdown gets. A coin being in the news changes how many people watch it. It does not change how you should test a bot. Chainlink is on today's trending list, and attention…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}