Trading bot development for Dutch traders
Updated 7 November 2026
For Dutch traders, I build bots that trade AEX futures and shares through Interactive Brokers or Saxo's OpenAPI, CFDs on MetaTrader or cTrader, and crypto on Bitvavo and other MiCA-licensed exchanges. A bot starts from $499, ready within 30 days, and trades on paper for as long as you want before it goes live.
I'm Shantanu Sahay, working remotely with businesses worldwide. We talk on WhatsApp, email or a video call, whenever suits you. Prices are in US dollars.
What you get
- Your strategy turned into a bot that follows it exactly
- Tested on past market data, then run on paper first
- Trade-only access to your own account: the bot can't withdraw
- Runs on your own PC or a cloud server in your name, as you choose
- The code is yours, with notes on running it yourself
- Two rounds of changes before it goes live
What works in the Netherlands
AEX and Mini AEX futures on Euronext Amsterdam, and shares, through Interactive Brokers. Shares and other markets through Saxo, which offers its Dutch clients the OpenAPI. CFDs through Pepperstone's EU arm on MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader or TradingView, or on MetaTrader 4 at IG. Crypto on Bitvavo, licensed by the AFM, or on Kraken and Coinbase, licensed elsewhere in the EU and passported to the Netherlands.
How I build your trading bot
- Tell me your rules and your brokerEntries, exits, size, market and timeframe, and where you trade. Rules still in your head? We write them down together.
- Get a fixed quoteWithin a day. If your broker has no trading API, you pick one that does.
- Tested before real moneyPay half to start. I code the bot, test it on past data, then run it on a demo account or with orders switched off, so you can watch it.
- It goes livePay the other half, and it trades your account. Anything not as agreed is fixed free for 14 days.
Questions from Dutch traders
Can a bot trade AEX futures?
Yes, through Interactive Brokers. The Mini AEX future is worth €20 a point, a tenth of the full €200 contract, so a bot can trade the index in smaller steps. Both settle in cash, and the bot can roll its position to the next expiry before the old one ends.
What leverage can a Dutch CFD bot use on the AEX?
10:1 at most on a retail account, because the AEX isn't on the list of major indices that get 20:1. I size the bot's positions inside that limit, and your losses can't go beyond the money in your CFD account.
Does the bot work with Bitvavo?
Yes. Bitvavo holds a MiCA licence from the AFM, and its REST and WebSocket APIs let a bot place orders and follow them. Its FIX API is for institutions, so a private trader's bot uses the other two.
Can I use Binance from the Netherlands?
No. Binance holds no licence to offer crypto services to Dutch residents, so a Dutch bot needs an exchange with a MiCA licence. MEXC has no MiCA licence either: the AFM flagged it in September 2025 for offering crypto services in the Netherlands without one.
Can it trade with Saxo?
Yes. Saxo serves Dutch clients through its Dutch branch and offers them its OpenAPI for building their own trading tools on Saxo's trading engine, and the bot is one of those.
Can my bot trade crypto CFDs or futures?
Crypto CFDs, yes, at no more than 2:1, the AFM's limit for retail accounts. Crypto futures go through Kraken, whose futures arm is passported to the Netherlands, once you've answered its appropriateness questionnaire.
Can a bot buy turbos?
Yes, if your broker's API can buy them, and only inside the AFM's caps: an issuer can't sell a Dutch retail client a turbo with more leverage than 10 on the AEX, for example, so the bot checks each turbo's leverage first.
Trading the AEX or crypto by hand?
Tell me how you trade on WhatsApp or by email, and a fixed quote reaches you within a day.