Starting Dex Trader, a Solana Paper-Trading Dashboard

The Initial Commit

I started dex-trader (0cbbdedf), a Solana paper-trading dashboard. The premise is simple: watch live DEX data, simulate entries and exits, and track the results without risking capital.

Why Paper Trading First

The immediate value of paper trading is that it forces the strategy logic to be explicit without the psychological weight of real money. A dashboard that shows simulated positions against live prices is a fast feedback loop for both the strategy and the UI—you learn quickly whether the data you’re showing is the data a trader actually needs.

Building on Existing Work

This sits downstream of the candle service and edge lab. The candle service provides the market data; edge lab provides the research pipeline; dex-trader is where a selected strategy can be watched in something approaching real time. Drawing the boundary at “no real orders” keeps the project safe to iterate on aggressively.

The Beginning

A single commit to start. The interesting decisions—which data to surface, how to represent a simulated position, how to attribute outcomes—come next.