Operador by Open Doors
Automated DCA trading over small-cap crypto on Solana.
It runs in PAPER mode today, and only paper mode. Live trading is
refused by loadConfig, not by convention: no wallet adapter exists, and
nothing in this repository can sign a transaction or move a token. You can
run it for weeks without a cent at risk.
What is real in paper mode, and what is not
| Real | Simulated |
|---|
| Token discovery | ✅ Jupiter + DexScreener, live | |
| Safety gates | ✅ GoPlus + Jupiter audit, live | |
| Honeypot test | ✅ a real sell quote against the pool | |
| Price candles | ✅ GeckoTerminal 1H, live | |
| Strategy decisions | ✅ the same code that reproduces your TradingView backtest | |
| Death watch | ✅ real sell probes against real pools | |
| Fills | | ⚠️ simulated, paying real spread + measured impact + gas |
| Money | | ⚠️ none. No wallet is ever touched |
Everything that DECIDES is real. Only the part that SPENDS is simulated — and
it is simulated pessimistically: a round trip at a flat price loses money,
because on a real chain it would.
Run it
cp .env.example .env # fill in DATABASE_URL and the Telegram pair
docker compose up -d --build
You need three free things:
- Postgres — Supabase or Neon, free tier.
- A Telegram bot — talk to
@BotFather, then get your chat id from
@userinfobot. That chat id is the ONLY one the bot will obey.
- A box — Oracle Cloud Always Free (ARM), or anything that runs Docker.
Your own machine is fine for a first run.
Nothing else needs an API key. DexScreener, GoPlus, Jupiter and GeckoTerminal
are all used through their public endpoints.
Watching it
- Telegram —
/status, /positions, /stop, /start
- Dashboard —
cd dashboard && vercel, read-only
- Alerts — death exits, halted positions and the kill switch arrive
unthrottled; everything else is rate-limited so the ones that matter are not
buried
Before any real money
The engine refuses live mode until a wallet adapter is built AND reviewed. When
that day comes, the order is: paper for weeks → read the numbers → a small
amount → scale. Not the other way around.
Two measured facts worth knowing first:
- Below roughly $50 the system cannot trade at all. Not "does badly" —
places zero orders, because the ladder cannot clear the gas floor.
- Above a pool's capacity, more capital does nothing. Scale comes from more
positions, not bigger ones.
See CLAUDE.md for the full design, the measurements behind those numbers, and
the decisions they came from.
