Six months ago I started building PassiveBot — a fully automated trading bot running 24/7 on a Mac Mini in my living room in New Zealand. Triple LLM consensus (Claude + DeepSeek + Gemini) voting on every trade before it fires. 15 technical checks. Regime-gated entries using Fear & Greed. BTC/ETH/SOL perpetuals on Hyperliquid. Then Liberation Day happened. F&G dropped to 8. Worst sustained fear reading since Terra-Luna. Bitcoin posted its worst Q1 since 2018. The bot did exactly what it was designed to do — sat out completely. Great for capital preservation. Terrible for making money. So I built a stocks system instead. What 20 years of real data actually says: Ran 29 strategies through a proper backtest. Real Yahoo Finance data. 0.1% slippage per trade. 28% NZ tax applied. Walk-forward validated.…