A while ago I had 10 $USDC just sitting in my wallet and I was thinking how nice it would be if I could programmatically trade 10 $USDC back-and-forth on market swings to try and earn 1-2% each trade. After all, if I trade 10 $USDC back-and-forth 10 times, earning 2% each trade, that's the same thing as trading 100 $USDC, one time, for a 2% return. See the idea? To add even more incentives, there is no crypto-equivalent of the Pattern Day Trader rule! This means I can trade with impunity on the blockchain without needing to have $25,000 sitting in my account and as long as its profitable after DEX and gas fees, we're all good. So I needed a blockchain with minimal fees, short confirmation times, instant finality, zero downtime, and a solid DEX with an SDK. Naturally, I went with the Algorand blockhain (@AlgoFoundation and @Algorand). I used the @tinymanorg python-SDK, made some modifications so I could add transaction notes to the swap groups, and coded up the logic for executing trades via the @tinymanorg smart contracts using their SDK. I started with 1 $USDC swaps and once I got comfortable started doing 10, 20, 30, and most recently 40 $USDC swaps. Results thus far: First trade: 2025-01-12 22:34:41 Last trade: 2025-07-15 20:54:10 Trading period: 183 days, 22:19:29.348000 Total profit: 103.99918 $USDC Trades closed: 256 Average trade size: 19.72422 $USDC Profit per trade: 0.40625 $USDC Average ROI: 2.1% $USDC Trade Volume: 10,202.8875 $USDC