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Learn agentic trading by building your first bot.

Not a course you sit through. The lessons assemble a real bot — your list, your rule, your stop — the engine grades it honestly on real prices, and the last node puts it on a paper desk. Then your AI takes over the watching.

The path · 13 lessons · one bot

Your first bot gets built down this path.

Each node is a part of a trading bot. The lessons teach the part honestly, and the checkpoints build it into your bot — your list, your rule, your stop — until the last node puts it on a real paper desk. Every lesson is open from day one; the order is a recommendation, never a lock.

  1. The market

    1. What a market actually isTwo prices, always
    2. How an order becomes a fillYou buy the ask
    3. Why your fills matter more than your ruleThe spread, paid twice

  2. Your universe

    1. Survivorship, and the universe you didn't seeThe list is a decision · builds your bot

  3. Your entry rule

    1. What a backtest actually claimsThe four parts · builds your bot
    2. Look-ahead: the mistake that makes everything look brilliantNever sees tomorrow

  4. Your exit & stop

    1. The optimism gap: tuned history against unseen historyTwo numbers, always · builds your bot

  5. The honest grade

    1. Sample size: when “it works” means “it happened twice”Only 14 trades fired
    2. Costs and skipped signals eat small edgesThe friction nobody writes down
    3. The same rule in two different marketsWhich weather it needs
    4. Options add time decay and a wider spreadSame rule, two instruments · two runs

  6. Deploy

    1. From tested to deployed: what a paper desk provesAnd what it can't prove
    2. Agentic trading: your AI does the work, you keep the decisionsGrade it. Deploy it. · builds your bot

The reference shelf

Look-up material, not homework. The lessons that lean on one of these name it and link to it at the point you need it, so you can also just walk the path and let the shelf come to you.