Trading bots work. They aren't set-and-forget though. You have to maintain them and adjust the strategies you're using as the market environment changes. You can also look into software-assisted trading that's not "fully" automated. I'm not at the point of fully automating yet. Right now I am implementing a scalp/swing strategy as a bot where I still have to tell it what to buy and when. It will size my position for me, scale in, and adjust my take-profits/stop as each buy order fills plus my stop is moved up as each TP hits to lock in the gains. You don't always have to be 100% automated.. though that is my end goal once I've coded something for buy signals.
Anyone with a working bot/strategy won't be selling you it for $100 or $499 lol. Why would they? They'd run it themselves and compound their gains. Free ones are okay but quite limited IMO. There are good software/platforms that allow you to build your own bots - program your own strategies - though, and of course you can code them from scratch... check out
r/algotrading if you're keen on this kind of stuff. Good luck
PS: Botting furu stock pumps seems like free money; and you can profit both on the pump and the dump. What goes up artifically has to come down etc
