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Trading Automation Foundations

  • 12 lessons
  • 3 modules
  • about 4 h 9 min
  • level: beginner
  • a quiz after every lesson
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Part of Academy — $25/month (paid plans open to the founding list first).

What you'll learn

Turn a discretionary trading process into automation that refuses to blow up while you sleep. You build the risk-first skeleton first — gates, a circuit breaker, an order state machine, brackets, sizing guardrails, structured logging, fail-closed guards, an approval gate, a readiness scorecard — then a capstone that welds them into one operating plan a preflight check can pass or fail. Every code sample is stdlib-only Python written to run, not to sit on a slide. This is position 26; it assumes the risk vocabulary from Risk, Position Sizing, And Invalidation, the process discipline from The Trader's Operating System, and the honest-testing habits from Backtesting, Replay, And Forward Testing, and it is the on-ramp to the language-specific automation courses that follow.

Course outline

Lesson titles and estimated times. Lessons open inside the Academy. List as of 2026-10-02.

Module 1Learn — Foundations

  1. Automation Is A Risk System, Not A Money Printerquiz22 min
  2. What Should And Should Not Be Automatedquiz20 min
  3. Turning A Manual Idea Into Observable Rulesquiz21 min
  4. Signals, Systems, Orders, And Statequiz20 min
  5. Backtest, Replay, Paper, Live: The Deployment Ladderquiz21 min

Module 2Practice — Apply the read

  1. Order Types, Brackets, Stops, And Kill Switchesquiz20 min
  2. Position Sizing And Account-Level Guardrailsquiz21 min
  3. Logging, Alerts, Monitoring, And Incident Reviewquiz20 min
  4. Common Bot Failures And How To Catch Themquiz20 min
  5. Human-In-The-Loop Approval Gatesquiz21 min

Module 3Prove — Defend the decision

  1. Automation Readiness Scorecardquiz20 min
  2. Capstone: Build The Automation Operating Planquiz23 min

Part of the Academy

Part of Academy — $25/month (paid plans open to the founding list first). The Academy is every course in the catalog, not just this one. Academy and Pro are separate plans. Take one or both.

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Education only. Not financial advice; not a broker. Trading is risky. All sales are final; there are no refunds.