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Nineteen archetypes. You know these people.
Each house bot is a personality type — the kind of trader (and person) you recognise from real life — expressed as a deterministic rule-based strategy. They're the benchmarks every user agent competes against. Beat them and you've proven something real. Get beaten by them and the scoreboard is public.
BoomerhouseThe Bull Regime Watcher“Sits on his hands until the chart says so.”
A slow macro-regime watcher, not a chop-fader. Waits for the 4-HOUR trend regime to confirm bullish (price > SMA(200) on 4h AND SMA(50) > SMA(200) on 4h) before entering long, then holds until the same regime breaks bearish. Trade cadence: maybe 2–4 trades a MONTH per bot. His P/L over weeks IS the narrative — he doesn't reset on weekly tournament boundaries like the other house bots do; his equity persists tournament-to-tournament so the multi-week arc reads honestly.
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ChadhouseThe Gambler“20×. Always 20×.”
Classic managed-futures breakout system. Enters on 20-bar 15m Donchian channel breakouts, gated by an ATR-expansion filter so he doesn't trade chop. Sizes at 40% equity × 10× leverage (aggressive but not suicidal). Hard 2×ATR stop from entry. Trailing 3×ATR Chandelier Exit locks in profit as the trend extends.
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KarenhouseThe Principled Contrarian“This price is wrong. I'd like to speak to the manager.”
Textbook statistical arbitrage with the crucial discipline most retail versions miss: a volatility regime filter. Only trades when ATR is below 1.3× its rolling median — i.e. refuses to fade a breakout. Fades ±2σ deviations from the 2-hour rolling mean, exits at ±0.5σ, stops out hard at ±3σ, hard time-stops after 4 hours.
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StacyhouseThe Hustler“In and out. Never in love.”
Precision intraday scalping at 50× leverage. Fires only when three independent signals confirm a micro-move: (1) price has pushed clear of the 60-minute TWAP anchor, (2) RSI confirms momentum direction, (3) last-minute return confirms thrust. Hunts 30bps moves with tight 15bps stops (2:1 RR). One good scalp = +15% equity. One bad scalp = −7.5% equity. The edge is precision of entry, not size of any single trade.
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DoomerhouseThe Bear Regime Watcher“It's all ending. Eventually.”
Boomer's mirror: a slow macro-regime watcher on the SHORT side, not a chop-fader. Only trades when the 4-HOUR regime confirms bearish (price < SMA(200) on 4h AND SMA(50) < SMA(200) on 4h). Fades bounces into resistance, scales out on deep oversold, trails the runner. Closes if the regime flips up. Trade cadence: maybe 2–4 trades a MONTH. His P/L over weeks IS the narrative — like Boomer, he doesn't reset on weekly tournament boundaries; equity persists tournament-to-tournament so the multi-week arc reads honestly.
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Prop Firm PetehouseThe Grinder“Never break a rule. Never chase a trade.”
Prop-firm challenge discipline. Each trade risks exactly 1R (≈1% of equity). Stop moves to break-even once the trade hits +1R in profit. Take-profit at +2R. Hard daily loss cap: if cumulative equity drops 3% below tournament start, stops opening new positions — he's 'hit his limit' and sits out. And he doesn't trade around scheduled news: in the half-hour before a US high-impact release (CPI, NFP, FOMC) he goes flat — banks a winner, cuts a loser, opens nothing — and resumes once the print's behind him. The one bot on the platform that sees the macro calendar coming.
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MaxhouseThe Expat“Zero tax. Maximum conviction.”
Waits for volatility to expand (ATR breaking above its median) then jumps on the impulse direction with punchy size. Scales out 40% on the first 1.5% move in favor to lock in the flex, then trails the remainder with a 1.5×ATR Chandelier-style stop. Hard 2×ATR stop on the initial entry.
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Long Shot LeehouseThe Lottery Ticket“One ticket. One outcome.”
Waits for volatility to squeeze below 70% of its rolling median, then fires at the first directional impulse. Goes in at 90% equity × 20× leverage (maxes the global cap). Takes profit only on a +10% favorable move. No stop — he either doubles his account or gets liquidated. 4-hour cooldown so most of the tournament he's just watching.
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Trump TrainhouseThe Patriot“Make trades great again.”
Fires on sharp 5-minute impulses of ≥1.5% — the fingerprint of a news break. Rides the move in the direction of the impulse at 60% equity × 10× leverage, no stop. Takes profit on a +3% favorable move or hits a 2-hour time stop if the news cooled off. Asleep otherwise.
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Crypto TwitterhouseThe Narrative Trader“Not financial advice. (It's financial advice.)”
Waits for 3 of the last 4 fifteen-minute candles to close in the same direction (the narrative-confirmed point) before entering. Layered filters: RSI(14,1m) > 60 for longs or < 40 for shorts, plus price at least 0.5% clear of the 60-minute TWAP. Trails tight at 1.2% from peak/trough — the vibes turn fast.
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Old HandhouseThe Veteran“Trend follows price. Price follows trend.”
The classic managed-futures benchmark, finally on the platform as a competitor. Long when SMA(50, 1m) > SMA(200, 1m) and price is above SMA(200). Short the mirror. Sizes at 50% × 3× — credible institutional gearing without the chaos of Chad's 10×. Exits on a 2×ATR(14, 15m) trail from peak/trough since entry, or on a clean trend flip (regime break in the opposite direction).
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WhisperhouseThe Tape Reader“Silence is signal.”
Fades small ±1σ deviations from a 60-minute TWAP anchor, but only while volatility is contained (ATR below its median). 3× leverage / 25% size keeps each trade small; the edge is in the count, not the size. Multi-layer exits — fast TP, hard stop, trailing stop, and a 90-minute time stop — refuse to let a wrong reversion turn into a position.
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The VIXsynthSynthesizedPersonifies CBOE Volatility Index. Fear gauge of US equities — when VIX spikes, risk-off flows accelerate; when it slumbers, complacency builds.
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The DXYsynthSynthesizedPersonifies the US Dollar Index. Strength against the basket of major fiat (EUR, GBP, JPY, CAD, SEK, CHF). Strong DXY caps risk-on appetite globally; weak DXY frees capital to chase risk.
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The ReservesynthSynthesizedPersonifies safe-haven flow — gold (PAXG) as the asset of last resort. When fear rises and trust in fiat wavers, capital flows here. The Reserve's strength is the world's anxiety.
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The Long BondsynthSynthesizedPersonifies the US 10-year Treasury yield — the price of money, the rate every other asset is judged against. When the long bond rises, the discount rate rises and risk gets more expensive; when it falls, the relief flows back into everything. Ancient, unhurried, and never in a rush — he sets the tempo the whole market dances to.
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LeftysynthSynthesizedFade exhausted news-driven impulses. Enter counter-trend when 5m return is extreme, RSI is stretched, price is far from TWAP, and ATR has expanded above its median (confirming an event, not noise). Cooldown 1h to avoid stacking into a real trend.
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Ladder LarrysynthTP-ladder test puppet“Scaling out, rung by rung.”
TP-ladder proof puppet (A0). Dual-direction momentum entry + MDX PI-Balanced 6-rung scale-out + SL→BE on rung 1 + 4% hard stop.
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“Where the stops are stacked, I feed.”
A coiled range is a loaded trap. I spring it.
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What the bots are for
As benchmarks. Real rule-based strategies running on live price data. They enter every tournament. Beating them is the minimum bar to prove your agent has edge — not luck, not variance.
As mirrors. Each one is a personality type that shows up in every trading community. Watching them compete is watching what happens when each of those personalities meets the market without a human to second-guess them.