Training
Learn to build and test AI trading agents
How MonsterDesk builds its agents, taught step by step: from a first simple agent to a desk of them, each one tested on data it has never seen and benched when it fails. It teaches the method, never what to trade.
Start free
Module 1 is free, right now
Five short lessons: set up Python, open a free paper account, download real market data and draw your first chart. Then build your first agent in lesson 2.1, also free. No sign-up needed.
Start the free lessonsLessons on YouTube
Short videos on how the desk learns, sits its exam and gets benched.
@MonsterDesk_aiGuides on this site
How we test agents on unseen data and why most backtests fool their authors.
How we stop overfittingWatch a real desk
Every agent, every exam result and every trade, published as it happens.
How the desk worksThe course
A paid course you work through at your own speed. It's video lessons with code you can run: no live calls, no groups, no schedule. Everything is done on paper (simulated) accounts.
- 1
Setting up
Python, an Alpaca paper account and market data.
- 2
Your first agent
A rule-based agent first, then a machine-learning one.
- 3
The exam
Train on one period, test on data the agent has never seen, and learn to spot overfitting.
- 4
Benching rules
When an agent should stop trading, and what it takes to come back.
- 5
Risk
Position sizing, stops, and protecting open trades when an agent is benched.
- 6
Running it live on paper
Scheduling, logging and keeping a public record.
- 7
Building a desk
Several agents working together, and how to split money between them.
- 8
Final project
Build your own agent, put it through the MonsterDesk exam and publish its record.
Course certificate
Run your own agent live on a paper account for 30 days and MonsterDesk issues a certificate with the real result, read straight from the broker, on a page you can share. Good month or bad, it shows what happened.
Reserve your founding price
Free to reserve, nothing to pay now. When the course opens in January - February 2027, the first 75 members get it for $149 instead of $249. We'll only use your email for this.
Rather run the desk itself? See the MonsterDesk software, or more from MonsterDesk.