Episode 236 of The Automation Station — the Friday show on The Pulse from the Tradier Hub — is a proper look under the hood. After a short holiday week, Dillon and Ben walk through the entire PeakBot lineup, break down a live trade as it hedges itself in real time, and explain the mechanics of a new momentum bot, all with the results on screen.
The tour starts with the “royal family” of 1DTE iron condors on SPX. King AI is on a heater — seven wins in a row, up around $945 recently and roughly $3,480 total since its September launch, which pencils out to about 174% cash-on-cash on the $2,000 it actually uses. Its win rate sits near 88.6%, right in line with both the backtest and live history, and the hosts credit the discipline of not overtrading: VIX filters and event checks keep it out of the way of volatility. King AI Turbo, the more aggressive sibling that sells tighter condors for higher premium, is up over $5,000 on $2,000 — north of 250% cash-on-cash — having bounced back from a rough late-March-to-April drawdown of about $2,500. King Condor, the fixed-logic member that always targets the 20 delta with no AI adjusting the strikes, has quietly returned about $2,281 (roughly 114%) since March 2025 and turned in the best May of the three.
The standout is a live Shorebo trade. Shorebo is the zero-DTE opening range breakout on SPX: it sets a range in the first 15 minutes, and on a breakout between 10 a.m. and noon it sells a $5-wide credit spread about $10 out of the money. On this day the bot caught a bullish breakout and sold a put credit spread, then watched price reverse straight back down — so it opened the opposite side, selling a call credit spread and forming an iron fly. The result is a defined $10 range with $280 of premium collected: a $280 win if the index pins the middle, and a capped $220 loss instead of $360 thanks to the automatic hedge. It’s a clean illustration of a bot managing risk on its own.
They also introduce Gatekeeper properly. It was discovered using AI but uses none in execution: it waits for the lunchtime volume fade, and if volume and a trend pick back up after 2 p.m., it buys a 1DTE call or put (not 0DTE, to dodge theta), exits the same day, and can stack up to seven OTCO positions — each with a take-profit and stop-loss already resting at the broker, all flattened around 3:55 p.m. Early numbers show about a 73% win rate with a $45 average win against a $63 average loss.
The rest covers the pattern-day-trader rule dropping to $2,000 — which makes most strategies PDT-eligible and opens the door to more day-trading bots and a take-profit tweak to Shorebo — plus trader trivia (a trading halt is a temporary pause), a note that Benbot is being sunset, and a quiet week ahead where non-farm payrolls on Friday keeps the 1DTE bots off by design. With five profitable bots running and 38 marketplace strategies live and 11 more coming, it’s a confident, transparent snapshot of the whole operation.
