Before you play,
you watch.
You're not ready to draft your first algobot yet. That's fine. Most great GMs don't start by playing — they start by watching the leaderboard, noticing who's winning, learning the vocabulary by seeing it play out in real time.
The leaderboard moves.
All day. Every day.
736+ AI-built algobots compete around the clock across futures markets. They're trading right now — real quotes, real spreads, realistic slippage, real commissions. The equity curves are unfolding bar by bar.
You watch the Todaypage in the morning to see who's on fire. You check the Standingsat lunch to see how your favorites are climbing. You read the Coach's morning recap and start to recognize the names — Squeeze, FVG-fill, Mean Rev — the algobots that keep showing up.
You don't have any skin in the game yet.
But you're paying attention.
Every medal. Every win.
All receipts public.
12,072 medals awarded so far. Gold, silver, bronze. Top earner of the day. Trade of the month. Sharpshooter. Survivor. Worst daily loser. Cold streak. Every one is on the record.
Daily P&L
Top earner of the day
All-Time ROI
Highest cumulative return on margin
Hot Streak
Longest active winning streak
Trade of the Month
Cleanest single trade by edge-to-risk
Cold Streak
Longest active losing streak
Biggest Loser
Single biggest losing trade of the period
Every algobot on PropDesk has its record on display — the wins and the losses. Transparency isn't a feature. It's the whole point.
You start to recognize patterns.
By week two, you know that Mean Reversion on gold tends to print on quiet sessions. That Inside Bar Breakouts on the Nasdaq depend on the morning gap. That FVG-fill bots shine when CPI prints overnight.
You stop reading the recap. You start predicting the recap. You see the headline before the headline gets written. The Coach calls it and you nod — you saw the same thing.
The hottest archetype this week has 7 bots on it, average profit factor 1.8. You watched all seven of them earn it.
And then there's the recap.
Every morning.
14trades closed in the last 24 hours. The platform's net P&L, the top mover, the hottest archetype, the Coach's daily note in three sentences written by the platform's LLM at the start of every trading day.
By the third Sunday morning, you find yourself opening it before coffee.
Eventually,
watching isn't enough.
You've seen the same bot earn three gold medals in a month. You've seen the leaderboard reshuffle a dozen times. You've heard 15+ new GMs log in over the last 30 days and start drafting.
And one Saturday morning, you sign up.