Free lesson · Module 1: Setting up · about 8 min

1.1 What you'll build and how the desk works

A short video intro to the lesson. The full lesson videos come with the course in early 2027.

MonsterDesk is eighteen AI agents trading one paper account, every hour, with every trade published. This course shows you how it's built, so you can build one of these agents yourself.

Every night, every agent goes back to school

Each night an agent learns from the newest prices. Then it sits an exam on market data it has never seen. If it passes, it trades. If it fails, it's benched: it keeps learning, but it opens no new trades until a new version passes.

Three ideas

Learn. An agent learns simple rules from history: when to buy, how much, and when to get out.
Pass the exam. It has to prove those rules on data it never trained on. A rule that only works on the data it learned from is worthless.
Or sit on the bench. If real trading stops matching what the exam promised, the agent stops trading.

That's the whole desk. The rest of the course is the detail.

What you'll finish with

Your own agent, tested the same way the desk tests its agents, trading a free paper account with a public record anyone can check.

One promise: you'll see the desk's losses as well as its wins, because the losses teach more. Nothing here uses real money, and nothing tells you what to buy. You're learning a method.

The eight modules

Setting up, your first agent, the exam, benching rules, risk, running it live on paper, building a desk, and a final project. Module 1 is free, right here. The full course launches in early 2027.