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$25,000
on the line. Every trade public.

Follow the Public Portfolio Challenge blog series and install the open-source skills library on GitHub. NexusTrade Premium includes Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals, unlimited backtests, and live broker trading.

Open skills library 10-episode blog series Free course included
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Starting book

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Open source skills library

The Public Portfolio Challenge

Real money, full transparency — plus an open skills/ library you can install in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and 15+ other agent tools.

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10 episodesModel bakeoffsDeploy dayProduction bugs

The $25,000 Public Portfolio Challenge

I deposited $25,000 into a live brokerage account and made the whole thing public. Every trade, every AI model test, every failure — documented in real time. This is what actually happens when you let AI manage real money.

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Open source skills library · SKILL.md · MCP

Composable agent skills on the open SKILL.md standard — the same skills/ folder runs in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and 15+ other tools. Walk-forward gates, lockbox rules, and deploy discipline from the live $25k challenge.

27

Stars

11

Forks

15+

Agent tools

  1. Clone the open-source skills library
  2. Run skills/install.sh — installs SKILL.md runbooks for your tool
  3. Connect NexusTrade MCP, then run python3 start.py
  4. Paste prompt.txt into Cursor, Claude, or Codex
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Ep 1

The challenge begins

Ep 3

11 models, one winner

Ep 5

AI-designed strategy goes live

Ep 8

Week 1 recap: +$2,546, two production bugs, and a rebuilt backtest engine

Ep 10

Episode 10: Fable 5 crushed out-of-sample, went live, then got banned

Learn the fundamentals

Intro to Algorithmic Trading

New to algo trading? Start here before installing the skills library. Hands-on activities inside NexusTrade — included with Premium.

Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals course preview
6–8 hours Beginner friendly No code required Certificate on completion

Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals

Master automated trading from scratch — the structured path from zero to your first deployed strategy. Same concepts behind the live challenge book.

  • Build trading indicators from technical, fundamental, and alt data
  • Backtest and evaluate with industry-standard metrics
  • Deploy to paper or live broker when the stats earn it
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Pick your entry point

Three ways in

Watch the drama, install the skills library, or learn the fundamentals — all roads lead to the same platform.

01 — Watch

Follow the challenge

Read the 10-episode blog series. Real money, real bugs, real results.

Read the series

02 — Install

Get the skills library

Clone the repo, run skills/install.sh, and let your agent execute the same walk-forward discipline.

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03 — Learn

Take the course

Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals — structured path from zero to first deploy.

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Premium unlocks the course, unlimited backtests, AI strategy builder, and live broker trading. Same stack running the challenge.

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Algo trading course
6–8 hours — indicators to live deploy
AI strategy builder
Natural language → executable rules
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Same engine the challenge uses
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