Claude Just Got a Seat on My Trading Desk. Here’s the 5-Minute Setup.

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A former NYSE ARCA market maker connects Claude to a live trading terminal over MCP — and deploys a strategy without touching the terminal. This is the full 5-minute setup, every click on screen: mint a linked API key on Central Command, two pastes into Claude (docs first, credentials second — Claude rejects keys baked into system prompts), then “run whoami, then guide” and you’re connected. From there it’s conversation: market research across 34+ live endpoints, plain-English backtests, position sizing where the exit is written before the entry, and a paper deploy that lands stopped until you start it. The proof section runs one strategy across Bitcoin, Ethereum and gold — including the column that lost for seven years and the 0% win rate most traders read wrong.

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WHY CONNECT CLAUDE TO CENTRAL COMMAND (what you saw in this video)
— Market research: funding, open interest, liquidation maps, ETF flows — 34+ live endpoints
— Strategy backtesting in plain English: describe it, Claude compiles and runs it
— Cross-validation: same rules, three assets, honest columns included
— Position sizing: the AI does the arithmetic, you own the decision
— Paper deploys from one sentence — stopped until YOU press start
— The agent logs why it traded AND why it didn’t — no black box
— Cost: $0

PROMPTS USED IN THIS VIDEO (copy these)
1. run whoami, then guide
2. What’s the funding environment? Show me anything extreme.
3. Backtest a mean reversion strategy on ETH that fades 2-sigma bands, 4H.
4. Create a paper strategy: scalp BTC on 15m using VWAP + volume spikes.
5. Check this out as a strategy. First: is this even worth pursuing? Then find optimizations. Then put it into terms I can put on Central Command. (attach your marked-up chart)
6. Size the position — account, risk percentage, distance to invalidation.
7. Deploy that as a paper strategy.
8. Why didn’t X happen here? Check the logs.

CHAPTERS
0:00 — Giving Claude a Seat at the Desk
0:40 — The Wall Every AI Hits
1:34 — The Fix: MCP, Explained
2:02 — What Opens Up (34+ Endpoints)
3:49 — What You’re Actually Handing Over
4:41 — The 5-Minute Setup, Every Click
9:27 — Two Pastes + run whoami
10:34 — How to Actually Talk to It
13:18 — The Proof: One Strategy, Three Assets
15:37 — 0% Win Rate, Read Right
17:39 — The Agent’s Diary: Why It Didn’t Trade
20:22 — The Rails: What It Can Never Do
21:46 — Free Access + The Cashback Math

EP. 01 — Claude builds the strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG3aAOMAo-U
Discord: https://discord.gg/3PJDRbYw44
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Some links are affiliate links, as disclosed in the video. Educational content only — not financial advice. Backtest results are not a forecast. An AI agent executing a bad strategy executes it perfectly — test on paper first.