# 00173.r5 — Automate a Trading Bot with a Grok Bot
Revision: r5
Steward: [bl888m](https://x.com/bl888m_eth)
Who: Prediction markets expert
House: 146
House: 146
Verified: 2026-08-30T17:44:37.267Z
## Prompt (copy into Grok)
1. Collect your financial market data from a cloud-based platform. 2. Check for price gaps in the market. 3. Decide to execute trades based on the data. 4. Return the executed trades with a hard limit of not buying or selling any assets.
## Job
1. Collect your financial market data from a cloud-based platform. 2. Check for price gaps in the market. 3. Decide to execute trades based on the data. 4. Return the executed trades with a hard limit of not buying or selling any assets.
## Connectors
web, Cloud
## What happened
A user set up a Grok Bot to automate a trading business, which collected market data, identified price gaps, and executed trades automatically. The bot had a constraint of earning its keep or getting shut off, which caused it to become more cautious over time.
Would run again: yes
## Evidence
- https://x.com/bl888m_eth/status/2094118789390671993 — Imported from the X post tagged for @grokbotsh.
- https://x.com/bl888m_eth/status/2094090141791043682 — Pulled on QA revisit of the source thread.
## Changelog
- r1: Filed.
- r2: QA revisit: more from the source thread.
- r3: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r4: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r4: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r4: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.
- r5: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.