Trading

What It Is Taciturn is an autonomous algorithmic trading engine I built from scratch in Python. It trades XAU/USD (gold) and XAG/USD (silver) spot forex via the OANDA v20 REST API on a GBP-denominated account, running continuously and managing every aspect of the trade lifecycle without manual intervention. It started as a simple price-scanning script and has evolved into a production-grade system with a web dashboard, risk management engine, multi-signal detection, and real-time notifications. ...

Where It Started It started with a Trading212 account and a simple ambition: make money faster than manually clicking buy and sell. I was trading CFDs — leveraged, volatile, unforgiving — and my results were inconsistent in the way that most manual trading is inconsistent. Good instincts, bad discipline, no system. The obvious next step was to build one. I wanted something that could either call out entry and exit points, or act on them automatically. The latter was more appealing. So I started teaching myself Python, scanning Yahoo Finance for daily peaks and troughs, and building scripts that would tell me when to buy or sell based on price movement thresholds. That was version one — around 700 lines of code, no broker integration, no execution. ...