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A desk of eighteen AI trading agents. They learn every night, are tested on data they have never seen, and stop trading if they fail. Everything they do is published here, and you can copy the desk on your own paper account for free.

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A practice account at a real broker, Alpaca. Prices and orders work like the real market, but the money is simulated. Alpaca gives every user a free paper account with $100,000 of paper money.

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Because a long public record, losing days included, is the only honest way to show whether the agents are any good. The desk, members' copies and the software beta all trade paper accounts. Real-money accounts will only be considered once the record has earned it, and never before members are told. See the roadmap.

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No. The desk and every member use paper accounts. We never hold or touch anyone's money.

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No. MonsterDesk is software that publishes what its automated agents do. It doesn't know your situation and doesn't tell anyone what to buy or sell. Past results, simulated or otherwise, don't predict future ones.

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Nothing during the beta. Running your own copy costs from $19 a month (founding price for the first 75 members) when the software opens in March 2027, and the course is $149 at founding price. See pricing. Members will be told well in advance, and nothing is charged unless you choose to subscribe. Pricing

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Very closely. Each position is the same share of your account as it is of the desk's: if a position is 5% of the desk, it is 5% of your account. There are no risk settings to choose. Copies go out within about a minute of each desk trade, using fractional shares and coins so small trades are matched too. Prices can differ by a few cents, and short positions need whole shares.

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Your account is checked against the desk every minute, so each desk trade reaches you within about a minute. Crypto is copied day and night; US stocks while the US market is open.

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Open a free Alpaca paper account, create an account here, paste your two Alpaca paper keys on My account and press Link. Copying starts straight away. The linking guide walks you through it with pictures.

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Yes. Pause on My account freezes your account as it is: nothing new is copied and nothing is sold. Resume brings it back in line with the desk within a minute. To stop for good, Unlink your account.

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Your stored Alpaca keys are deleted straight away and the desk stops touching your paper account. Any positions it opened stay there for you to keep or close in Alpaca.

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Yes. The Trades page lists every desk trade with its price and profit or loss, plus everything open right now. Your account page lists the latest orders copied to your own account.

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The beta opens in March 2027 for founding members, with the full launch from May 2027. You can run four agents of your choice, the full desk, or build your own agents with the agent builder. Founding prices: $19, $49 and $99 a month for the first 75 members, kept as long as you stay subscribed. Reserve yours free.

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A Mac or Linux computer that stays on, or a small cloud server (a few euros a month), Python 3.9 or newer, and a free Alpaca paper account. Setup is one line in a terminal and takes about ten minutes. See how it installs.

Yes, on the full-desk plan. Every agent runs together on one paper account with an equal share each. No two agents hold the same stock in opposite directions, and no stock is ever more than 10% of the account. Your install also receives the desk's own signal data each hour, so its agents decide on the same information as the desk.

Yes. On My account you can swap which agents your four-agent licence covers, once every 30 days. Your install picks the change up at its next daily update. An agent you drop opens nothing new and only closes what it already holds, so nothing is left unattended.

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No. The software is fixed to Alpaca's paper system and refuses live keys and live accounts. Use a separate paper account from the one that copies the desk, so the two don't trade the same money.

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The installer shows a short code. You type it on monsterdesk.ai/connect while logged in, and that install is connected for good. You do this once per install, not every month.

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No. They are saved only on the machine you install on, readable only by your user, and sent only to Alpaca. MonsterDesk never receives them.

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Nightly updates stop and, within three days, your install stops opening new trades. It still manages what it already holds while the computer it is on keeps running, and every position keeps its stop order at Alpaca. To stop completely, close the positions in Alpaca.

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All of Module 1 (setting up) and lesson 2.1 (your first agent), with no sign-up. Start the free lessons.

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January to February 2027: eight self-paced video modules with code you can run, all on paper accounts. $149 once for the first 75 members, then $249. About the course.

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An agent whose score on data it has never seen falls below the line stops opening new trades. It keeps learning every night and comes back as soon as a better version of it passes. See the agents.

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How well an agent did on stretches of data it never trained on. Below −0.25 it is benched; above it, it trades at full size. Higher is better.

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Every hour. The desk checks the markets hourly, the agents learn several times a day, and this site reads the desk's own records directly. Live health is on the status page.

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Seven checks, from testing only on unseen data to a "leak test" that catches data arriving too early. Read about all seven.

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They are encrypted before they are stored, never shown on any page (not even to admins), and only ever sent to Alpaca's paper system. Live-money keys are refused. Unlinking deletes them at once. How we protect your account.

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Unlink your Alpaca account to delete your keys straight away. To delete everything else, email admin@monsterdesk.ai from your account's email address.