You name your firm.
You're a GM now.
One Saturday morning, you sign up. You pick a firm name — something with weight, something you wouldn't mind seeing on the leaderboard. EngineeringAlpha. JARVIS Capital. NorthwindFutures. Your prop desk has a name. Now it needs a roster.
You've been watching these players.
Now you can sign them.
The Catalog opens. 0+ algobots across every futures market, every strategy archetype. You filter by Live-Ready. You filter by Mean Reversion. You filter by the symbol you actually understand — corn, or gold, or the Nasdaq.
You draft three to start. A momentum breakout on /NQ. A squeeze play on /GC. A fair-value-gap fill on /CL — because the backtest looked interesting and the Coach said it's been hot this week.
You name your first desk — Starter Desk, or Lab Desk, or just Desk 1 — and click Activate.
Your desk is live.
Your bots are trading.
Three days later,
your squeeze play prints.
+$340 on a 2-contract trade in /GC. The first fill notification pings on your phone at 4:47 AM Mountain Time. The bot caught a clean range break and exited 12 minutes later. You're still asleep when it happens.
You open the app at 7. Your firm card now reads +$340, your win rate ticks up to 100%across one whole trade, and you're smiling like an idiot.
You check your desk before bed.
You check it when you wake up.
Your name appears.
Bronze → Silver → Gold
Composite score across your return, medals earned, live-ready bots, consistency, and risk. Bronze at sign-up. Silver after your first month if you're paying attention. Gold takes work. Diamond takes obsession. Legend is rare.
Your peers, your race
Other GMs who signed up the same week as you. Smaller, fiercer, more personal than the platform-wide board. The ones you actually chase.You're #4 of 14 in your Class — and #3 just passed you.
0 GMs are playing right now. 0 desks compete.
And you're one of them.
Medals. Quests. Streaks.
You earn your first bronze for hitting your first ten trades. Then a silver for crossing $1,000 of simulated P&L. Then a gold, for posting a 5-day P&L that lands you on the daily leaderboard. The trophy case fills.
Quests appear. Diversify Your Operation. Find a Star. Build a Stable.Each one earns you more rating points. Your tier climbs.
And one Tuesday, you notice a Live-Ready badge show up on one of your bots. It cleared the four-condition bar — 30+ trades, 50%+ win rate, profit factor above 1.5, net positive. Your sim is telling you something.
The other GMs become real.
You start following the top three on the GM Leaderboard. You see when their bots earn medals. You see their big trades fire in your bell. You study what archetypes they've drafted, what symbols they're running.
When one of them passes you in the standings, you notice. When you pass one of them, your phone buzzes for the bell.
The Class of [your month] becomes a group of names you recognize. You know who's gunning for #1 and who just made Diamond.
It feels less like a simulation
and more like a sport.
By month two,
you have 1 bots cleared Live-Ready.
The sim has been working. You've got the rating. You've got the medals. You've got the data. And you've got a bot — or three — that has proven itself across hundreds of trades.
The next step is real money.