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Pre-Foundation Essentials

Core orientation for absolute beginners: market basics, risk mindset, and platform workflow.

3 lessons0.3h

What Is a Financial Market?

Understand how markets are structured, who the participants are, and why prices move.

6 lessons0.7h

What Is Cryptocurrency?

Understand what crypto is, how wallets work, and why crypto behaves differently from traditional assets.

5 lessons0.6h

Basic Trading Concepts

Learn the essential mechanics of order execution, costs, and volatility that every trader must understand.

7 lessons1h

What Is DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging)?

Understand the mechanics and limitations of DCA — the strategy at the core of this platform's bots.

5 lessons0.5h

Risk Fundamentals

The most important module in Tier 1. Understand position sizing, ruin risk, and capital preservation.

7 lessons1.4h

Market Structure

Learn to read price action, identify trends, ranges, and key structural levels.

5 lessons0.7h

Candlestick Theory

Understand how to read candlestick charts and extract actionable information from price action.

5 lessons0.6h

Basic Indicators

Learn the most common technical indicators and how to use them in bot strategies.

7 lessons1.3h

Trading Psychology

Master the psychological challenges of trading and learn how bots help enforce discipline.

7 lessons1.1h

Portfolio Thinking

Learn how to think about risk and allocation across multiple assets and strategies.

7 lessons1.5h

What Is an Algorithmic Trading Bot?

Learn the fundamental concepts of algorithmic trading and what makes a bot different from manual trading.

5 lessons0.7h

Anatomy of a Bot

Understand the internal architecture of a trading bot and how its components work together.

Execution Risks

Understand the risks that occur during order execution and how to mitigate them.

API Fundamentals

Learn how to interact with exchange APIs securely and reliably.

7 lessons1.7h

Strategy Engineering

Position Sizing Models

Learn fixed size, percent of equity, volatility scaling (ATR-based), Kelly criterion, and practical position sizing calculators.

Strategy Engineering

Risk Constraints

Learn max daily allocation, per-order caps, circuit breakers, exposure limits, and integrate all Tier 4 concepts in a capstone scenario.

7 lessons1.5h

Paper Trading vs Live Trading

Understand sandbox mode, shadow mode, pilot gating, production live mode, and transition strategies for safe bot deployment.

Live Deployment Checklist

Master capital sizing, pair selection, interval tuning, risk caps, and pre-deployment verification for safe bot launches.

Monitoring & Observability

Master tick logs, intent lifecycle, exchange confirmations, reconciliation pass/fail, and dashboard design for comprehensive bot monitoring.

Failure Modes

Understand exchange rejection, invalid order, rate limit errors, order not found, unknown classification, and failure recovery patterns for robust bot operation.

8 lessons1.2h

Capital Containment Drills

Master small cap live tests, transaction ID confirmation, rollback procedures, safe mode re-entry, and Tier 5 capstone scenario for safe bot deployment.

7 lessons1.5h

Deterministic Strategy Design

Master idempotency, state persistence, reconciliation loops, and deterministic system patterns for robust production trading systems.

6 lessons1.1h

Latency & Execution Drift

Understand microstructure noise, spread widening, liquidity events, and execution quality measurement for optimal trade execution.

Risk of Over-Optimization

Understand curve fitting, backtest bias, data leakage, survivorship bias, and overfitting detection to build robust trading strategies.

Capital Efficiency

Master volatility regimes, allocation throttling, risk-adjusted scaling, and dynamic allocation models to optimize capital deployment.

Multi-Bot Portfolio Architecture

Master correlated bot risk, cross-margin exposure, capital partitioning, and portfolio-level risk management for multi-bot operations.

6 lessons1.4h

Operational Discipline

Master weekly signal reporting, deployment logs, performance journaling, and operational frameworks for professional-grade bot operations.

Live Incident Management

Build operator-grade incident response playbooks for bot outages, execution drift, and risk breaches.

5 lessons0.8h

Strategy Validation Framework

Establish measurable acceptance criteria and robust validation gates before capital scaling.

5 lessons0.8h

Behavioral Risk Control

Design controls that prevent discretionary overrides and emotion-driven operational errors.

5 lessons0.8h

Scaling Capital Safely

Apply structured capital-scaling rules with liquidity constraints, deployment cohorts, and rollback triggers.

5 lessons0.9h

Bonus Track A: Options Overlay for Bot Operators

Use simple options overlays to bound tail risk around automated spot strategies.

3 lessons0.4h

Bonus Track B: Regime Classification Layer

Add a lightweight regime classifier to gate strategy behavior under changing market structure.

3 lessons0.5h

Bonus Track C: Portfolio Stress Testing

Design practical stress scenarios and response plans for multi-bot portfolios.

3 lessons0.5h