Hey Everyone!!
First weekly update as promised, following my original Mizar DEX bot article where I turned 0.29 BNB into 3.29 BNB (10.3x). If you’re new here, I’m documenting my journey running automated DEX bots on BNB Chain and Solana — wins, losses, and everything in between.
TL;DR:
Note: All of these numbers are for November so far, not just a single calendar week — I’m tracking the whole month’s performance.
Here’s what happened this week.
BNB Chain: (BNB = $920)
Solana: (SOL = $137)
Here’s the real story: Last week I was -0.13 BNB (-$120 USD) down on November. Now I’m +0.11 BNB (+$101 USD) up. That’s a +0.24 BNB recovery in 7 days.
November 13th was the turning point. The bot opened a position overnight while I slept (24/7 trading risk). Woke up to what eventually became a -0.6 BNB (-$552 USD) loss when I cut it. The bot made back +0.15 BNB through trades the rest of the day, bringing the daily total to -0.45 BNB shown on the calendar.
The overnight trading reality: You can’t monitor every position when the bot runs 24/7. Sometimes you wake up to a loss that needs cutting.
The bot stayed consistent with small wins: Nov 11th +0.22 BNB, Nov 14th +0.44 BNB, Nov 15th +0.13 BNB. Plus I made some small manual trades (0.05–0.1 BNB per trade) that helped with the recovery.
Positive days: 14/16 trading days in November. The scaling discipline is working — even that -0.6 BNB hit didn’t destroy the stack like the October drawdowns did.
I have 6 positions in the red right now but I’m confident these will turn profitable.
The biggest one is RCHV (Archivas) — currently -0.42 BNB (-$387 USD / -29.44%) with 1.434 BNB ($1,319 USD) total invested across multiple DCA entries, now sitting at 1.01 BNB in the position. Looking at the 15m chart, it’s showing signs of bottoming out. Take profit is set and ready to close when it bounces.
I’ll be monitoring this position closely now until it closes — not panicking, but watching the chart structure and being ready to manually cut if it shows death spiral signals instead of bottoming.
The other positions:
Total unrealized P&L: -0.44 BNB across these open trades.
This is exactly how DCA works — let the positions play out, don’t panic cut everything, but stay engaged when positions get heavy. The bot’s already closed 13 winning trades vs 11 losses this month with strong volume (14,662 BNB buys vs 13,539 BNB sells). The 7D realized P&L is +0.074 BNB (+0.51%), which shows the bot is still grinding profit even with positions currently underwater.
The Problem: Bad token selection criteria.
I was running a bot with aggressive settings and a 50% stop loss, but the bigger problem was my token selection criteria. I was less careful about which tokens I was entering, which meant I got way more projects that just dumped hard.
Results: Nov 14th -0.73 SOL (-$100 USD), Nov 11th -0.33 SOL (-$45 USD). Those weren’t “positions that would have recovered” — they were bad picks that deserved to be cut.
I’ve switched that bot off.
Net result: Gave back most of last week’s gains (-0.54 SOL / -$74 USD).
Still profitable overall (+22% from start), but it’s slow and boring. Had a small -$11.53 loss this week. Current balance: 0.11 ETH ($341 USD).
I’m stopping BASE coverage in weekly updates. The on-chain activity is too quiet to make it worth reporting on every week. I’ll give a final summary at the end of the 90 days, but weekly updates will focus on BNB and SOL where the actual action is happening.
BNB Chain: Still active but the October hype has cooled. New launches are happening but the degen rotation isn’t as aggressive. The bot’s still profitable but it’s grinding small wins, not printing money like early October.
Solana: High volatility, high activity. The market is there — I just picked bad tokens. The bots using “Top Ten Alpha” filter are doing well — the problem was the other strategy that wasn’t selective enough.
The BNB recovery is the real story. Down -0.13 BNB (-$120 USD) on the month last week, now up +0.11 BNB (+$101 USD). The bot took a -0.6 BNB (-$552 USD) hit on Nov 13th, but consistent small wins across 14 positive days in November brought it back.
This is what sustainable compounding looks like — not explosive 10x runs like October, but grinding back from red days without panic. The October drawdown taught me to scale slower. This week I proved that discipline works by NOT SCALING AT ALL. Same position sizes all week.
SOL lesson: Token selection criteria matters more than anything else. The bot with loose criteria was entering shit projects that dumped hard. Meanwhile, my bots using “Top Ten Alpha” filter are performing well. Quality over quantity. Don’t relax your entry criteria just because the market isn’t busy.
Week one reality: This isn’t going to be green every week. The BNB stack is stable, Solana gave back gains because of bad token selection, and BASE is too slow to bother with weekly.
The October results were exceptional. November is showing what “normal” looks like — grinding small wins with occasional red days that hurt, and learning from strategy mistakes.
That’s the whole point of these weekly updates though. Show the reality, not just the highlight reel.
Still targeting 10 BNB and 10 SOL in 90 days, but this week was a reminder that it won’t be a straight line.
There’s an active Mizar Discord where people share configs, results, token flow, and risk ideas. It’s not a ghost server — there are real traders in there sharing configs, results, and ideas.
This is where the “Top Ten Alpha” filter content comes from. People share contract addresses, discuss rug patterns, and help each other avoid mistakes.
If you want to try the same bot, I’m using the Mizar DEX bot — no subscription, runs on-chain, supports BNB / SOL / ETH.
Weekly updates will focus on BNB Chain and Solana only. BASE is still running and profitable overall, but it’s too slow and quiet to waste time reporting on every week. I’ll give a final BASE summary at the 90-day mark.
That’s it for this week’s update.
See you next Saturday/Sunday for Weekly Update #2.
Happy Trading Everyone!!!
- Mark / RealisticCrypto
Please remember, nothing I say is financial advice. I’m not responsible for any losses (or profits) you incur by using Mizar or any other platform. I’m just sharing what works (and what didn’t work) for me throughout my Crypto journey!!
Weekly Update #1: I Turned -$120 Into +$101 This Week (Despite a $552 Loss) was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
