Building a Technical Analysis Bot With Claude: RSI, MACD, and Live Trade Setups

Claude is an excellent reasoning engine. Technical analysis (TA) is pattern recognition on numerical data. Together: give Claude real price data and watch it produce actual trade setups. Here's how to build it from scratch. The Core Idea Claude can't access live market data. But you can fetch it, compute the indicators, and pass the results in. Claude then reasons about the patterns. Without real data: Claude hallucinates prices and gives generic advice. With real data: Claude gives grounded analysis with specific levels. Step 1: Fetch OHLCV Data // Using Binance public API (no auth required for market data) async function getOHLCV( symbol: string, interval: string = '1h', limit: number = 100 ) { const url = `https://api.binance.com/api/v3/klines?symbol=${symbol}&interval=${interval}&limit=${limit}` const response = await fetch(url) const data = await response.json() return data.map((candle: any[]) => ({ timestamp: new Date(candle[0]), open: parseFloat(candle[1]), high: pars