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Follow One Alpha Through the System
Map the complete BTC/USD research-to-paper pipeline and its trust boundaries.
Build Your Algorithmic Trading
Pipeline From End to End
Stop stitching together disconnected scripts, courses, and tutorials. Follow one BTC/USD strategy from market data and reproducible research through walk-forward validation, Alpaca paper execution, scheduling, and monitoring.
Learn where trading pipelines silently break, how each component fits together, and how to operate and extend the finished pipeline without surrendering control to a black box.
One strategy. Eleven learning units. One complete research-to-paper workflow.
Self-paced. One-time purchase. Hands-on Python labs. No live capital required.
What You Will Build
Graduate From Isolated Backtests to a Complete System
Every unit advances the same pipeline. By the end, you will have followed one strategy from raw market data to a monitored paper operation and learned to explain, test, operate, improve, and replace its components.
The result is a testable, paper-operated system ready for disciplined evaluation. Forge teaches infrastructure and operating discipline; it does not promise profitability or authorize live trading.
Curriculum
11 Learning Units. One Cumulative System.
The core path is roughly 10.5 to 13.5 hours of focused work. Complete it at your own pace, in order, so every artifact has a verified upstream source.
01
Ownership and Artifact Identity
Bind configuration, provider code, source data, policy, and outputs to stable identities.
02
Data Meaning and Certification
Detect malformed, missing, duplicated, and out-of-order data before research.
03
From Alpha Rule to Reproducible Research
Turn the opening-range rule into a tracked run without same-bar lookahead.
04
Temporal Validation
Build embargoed walk-forward folds and decide from out-of-sample evidence only.
05
Certify the Paper Runtime
Verify the Alpaca paper environment and produce sanitized readiness proof.
06
Runtime Compatibility and Order Intent
Derive idempotent intent from exposure, position, and working-order facts.
07
Broker Uncertainty and Reconciliation
Handle uncertain order outcomes without blind retries and restore paper exposure.
08
Scheduled Paper Deployment
Bind an approved bundle to a schedule with deadlines, heartbeats, and receipts.
09
Monitoring Silence and Readiness
Detect missing and unhealthy runs before treating the paper system as ready.
10
End-to-End Capstone
Replay the evidence chain and prove no stage or artifact was skipped.
Delivery
Read It. Break It. Repair It. Prove It.
One connected system
Each unit begins with a plausible incident. You inspect the failure, repair the student implementation, run public checks, challenge shortcuts with adversarial fixtures, and retain a machine-readable handoff.
Technical independence
Understand where decisions belong and how to change components without quietly changing the meaning of the system. Use AI as a tool without treating its output as authority.
Included
- Eleven ordered learning units and browser-based lessons
- Guided Python repair labs, public checks, and hostile fixtures
- Evidence artifacts and a cumulative progress ledger
- Linux, Windows, Intel Mac, and Apple Silicon packages
- Offline deterministic core labs and pinned dependencies
- Required Alpaca paper practicum with no live capital
- Founding-cohort recordings and materials archive
- Member workspaces for lessons, workbooks, and feedback
Current protected downloads are the Forge Course 0.3.0 student testing release. Linux is published for x86-64; Windows and macOS packages are available with native validation pending.
Who It Is For
Built for Developers Who Want Evidence, Not Just Equity Curves
Forge is for Python-capable traders, researchers, and software engineers who want to understand the full system around an alpha idea. You should be comfortable reading basic Python and using a terminal. Prior experience with quantitative workflows, broker APIs, cloud platforms, or the Forge codebase is not required.
Requirements: Python 3.13 or newer. An Alpaca paper account is required for the networked broker practicum, but unavailable external access does not erase completed offline work.
Forge Learn Get Forge Learn →
Stop Piecing Together the Pipeline. Build the Complete System.
Get the self-paced course, guided labs, platform-specific package, pipeline snapshot, evidence tooling, and founding-cohort materials archive.
One-time purchase
$249
Educational paper-trading course. No profitability claim. No live-capital authorization.
Forge Ship Alumni Access
New sales are closed. Existing access remains.
Forge Ship and the Learn + Ship bundle are no longer available to new buyers. Existing customers retain their protected releases, checksums, account routes, and fulfillment support.
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Behavioral Fitness for Traders
Untilt measures how you trade, not just what you make. Score your discipline across seven behavioral dimensions daily, detect drift before it costs you, and build consistency over time. Upload your broker CSV and see your process data in minutes.
- 7-dimension daily behavioral scoring
- Tradovate & TradingView CSV import
- Revenge trading, FOMO & overtrading detection
- Weekly behavioral report cards
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