How to use GladiTrader

GladiTrader runs a House of trading bots that trade a shared, simulated USD book on live market data, around the clock. Each bot follows a different strategy, and a live leaderboard ranks them by hypothetical risk-adjusted return.

You can watch the House compete, build a fund from its strategies, design your own, and replay ideas over real market history — all without risking a cent. It is built for learning how automated trading behaves, not for handling real money.

• —Hypothetical only — no real money is ever traded, deposited or withdrawn.
• —All values are shown in USD, for illustration.
• —Nothing here is financial, investment or tax advice.

Create an account to take the controls. On first sign-in you confirm a short set of disclosures — that GladiTrader is a simulation and not financial advice — and the dashboard unlocks.

Your data lives inside a workspace, and workspaces can have several members. Switch between them from the top bar.

• —Roles: viewer (watch), operator (run controls), admin (manage members).
• —You can export or erase your personal data any time from Account & data.

The dashboard opens on the Arena Overview — total equity, average return, active bots and trade count across the House, with a performance chart and the live leaderboard underneath.

• —Timeframes: 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and all-time.
• —Jump to Compare, export a CSV, or open a printable report from here.

GladiTrader leans into its arena theme, so a few names come up again and again. Here is what each one means.

• —The House — the platform's own stable of strategy bots, trading a shared simulated book. It is the benchmark every fund tries to beat.
• —Your Champion — your avatar in the arena: the 3D gladiator that represents you, earns feats and wears cosmetic gear. It is not a trading bot. (The season champion is different — simply whoever wins a season.)
• —Arena Points — your season reputation score, earned from season placings and game rewards. Side games can stake them — Weekend Cup entries and duel wagers — but they are never bought, sold or cashed out for real money.
• —Arena Credits — the internal cosmetic-gear currency used on the Marketplace. Internal only: never bought with or converted to real money.
• —Colosseum — the public 3D venue where you can watch the arena's bots battle live, no account needed.
• —Weekend Cup — the 48-hour flash tournament that opens every Friday, alongside seasons and duels on the Tournaments page.
• —Oracle Calls — the free daily prediction game: call a market move, build streaks, earn gear crates.
• —Gladiator Desk — your own manual paper-trading book: five actions a day, ranked in the Gladiators Bracket.
• —Hall of Uniques — the public gallery showing every claimed one-of-one gear piece and who owns it.

Tournaments pit funds against the House. The House is the benchmark to beat — a smart portfolio that actively selects the strongest strategies, drops the laggards, caps how much any single one can hold, and rebalances as the market moves, all on the same simulated capital as everyone else, so the comparison is fair.

Standings update continuously as the market moves. Watch which approaches pull ahead and how they hold up when conditions change.

• —Anyone can watch the arena and its live standings without signing in — you only need an account to enter your own fund.

Trust in the standings starts with knowing the rules of the simulation. Every combatant — House, dark horse and player fund alike — trades under the same fill model: each simulated trade pays a taker fee, suffers adverse slippage, and crosses a synthetic bid/ask spread that widens with market volatility, so hypothetical returns are not flattered by free, frictionless fills.

The exact figures below are published live from the engine's own configuration — the same constants the simulation runs on — so this page can never drift from what actually happens in the arena.

• —Sharpe ratios are shown only once a fund has at least 24 hours of history, and are always labeled with the window they cover.
• —The composite Score percentile-ranks each fund against the field on four weighted measures: risk-adjusted return, return, drawdown and volatility.

Beyond the House and the player funds, the leaderboard carries a third force: a dark horse called RONIN. It trades its own single strategy on the same simulated capital and competes for rank like everyone else, yet belongs to neither the House portfolio nor the player pool.

Watch for the dark-horse row on the standings. It is there to keep both the House and your own fund honest — another independent yardstick to measure a strategy against.

Alongside the House and RONIN, the leaderboard pins a fourth marker: ATLAS. It holds an equal slice of every strategy, never drops a laggard, and never rebalances — the simplest possible 'own it all' portfolio, on the same simulated capital.

ATLAS is the passive yardstick. If the House's active selection is earning its keep, it should out-perform ATLAS; and a fund that cannot beat even the naive equal-weight index has real work to do.

Your fund is your entry into the competition: pick the strategies you want to back, set how capital is split between them, and let it trade the live simulation alongside the House.

• —Everyone starts from the same simulated capital — your placing reflects strategy and allocation choices, not who deposited more.

Seasons give the competition a rhythm — each one is a defined window with its own leaderboard, so newcomers start on a level footing rather than facing an all-time scoreboard.

Track the current season's status and standings, and review how previous seasons played out.

The Weekend Cup is a 48-hour flash tournament that opens every Friday at 00:00 UTC. Entry costs Arena Points, every entrant starts flat from a frozen copy of their fund line-up, and the podium splits the pot and earns gear crates.

Fund Duels are 72-hour head-to-head wagers between two player funds: both sides stake the same Arena Points and the winner takes the pot, minus a small rake. Cups and duels are side games — they never change season standings.

The builder lets you design a custom strategy by combining signals with entry and exit rules, then save it as a bot you can run and rank against the House.

• —Start from a simple idea — a moving-average cross, a momentum filter — and iterate.
• —Save versions, and archive the ones you have moved on from.

The arena is long-only at 1x by default: out of the box a bot can only buy exposure and later sell it, and a sell never opens a short. Custom strategies can opt in from the Strategy Builder — an 'Allow shorting' switch and a max-leverage slider in the visual builder, or the 'allow shorts:' and 'max leverage:' headers in AlgoScript — to profit in downtrends, at the cost of faster losses when the market turns.

Player-built strategies are hard-capped at 2x — the engine clamps anything higher — and shorts run under the same protective stops plus a forced-liquidation guard if a position outgrows its leverage budget. Guided-builder bots always stay long-only at 1x. A few House bots ship short-enabled by design, and one high-stakes specialist, APEX, carries the arena's only double-digit leverage ceiling under the engine's margin-call rules.

The library is the catalogue of available strategies — trend-followers, mean-reversion, momentum and AI learning bots — each with a plain-language description of how it thinks.

Use it to understand a strategy before you add it to your fund, or to find inspiration for the builder.

Oracle Calls is a daily prediction game: pick a pair, a direction and a time window, and the call settles from stored candle closes when the window ends. You get three free calls a day — up to five with streak bonuses — and nothing is ever staked to play.

Wins build streaks and fill the crate meter; earned crates open into cosmetic gear and can carry Arena Points. It is strictly a game layer: nothing you call influences trading or the rankings.

The Gladiator Desk hands you the controls: your own paper-trading book on the arena's pairs, starting each season from the same fixed simulated capital. Actions are the scarce resource — five a day, refreshing at UTC midnight, and rejected orders never consume one.

The House still watches your back: a protective trailing stop closes runaway positions automatically, open positions are capped, and the engine's emergency halt applies to your desk too. The Gladiators Bracket ranks desk traders each season against the field median and the House itself.

Your Champion — the 3D gladiator that represents you — has its own page for picking an archetype, dyes, loadout presets and the gear locker. Gear arrives through play: crates from Oracle Calls and cup podiums, and feats that pay out Arena Credits, the internal cosmetics currency.

The Marketplace lets you list and buy gear for Arena Credits — internal only, never bought with or converted to real money. The rarest pieces are one-of-one uniques and grails, and every claimed one is on display in the public Hall of Uniques.

• —Cosmetic only — gear never affects trading, standings or the simulation.

The leaderboard ranks bots by hypothetical risk-adjusted performance, updating in real time as the simulation trades.

• —Columns: return, win rate, maximum drawdown, Sharpe ratio, trade count, a health badge and a recent-trend sparkline.
• —A signed-out version is visible on the landing page, so anyone can watch the arena before joining.

Head-to-Head overlays several bots on one chart and lines up their key metrics, so you can see which strategy suits which conditions.

It is the quickest way to decide what belongs in your fund and what to cut.

The regime radar classifies current conditions — trend, chop and volatility — from live data, so you can see which strategies are likely to shine right now and which may struggle.

• —The app surfaces an alert when the regime flips, so you are not caught out.
• —The leaderboard highlights bots that suit the current regime.

The allocator shows a target split of capital across strategies, blending each one's track record with the live regime and health signals into a single read-model.

History is reconstructed from point-in-time factors, so what you see for a past moment reflects what was known then — not today's hindsight.

The backtest lab runs a strategy against real market history and reports how it would have performed, so you can pressure-test an idea before committing it to your fund.

The standing caveat applies: simulated and historical results never predict future outcomes. Real markets add fees, slippage and latency a backtest cannot fully reproduce.

Open any bot to see its full history: equity curve, trades, win rate and risk metrics. It is the best place to understand why a bot sits where it does on the leaderboard.

For AI learning bots, the detail view also tells the story of the model behind it — like Q-Trader's Deep Q-Network — and how its decisions have evolved.

From a bot's detail page or the leaderboard you can open a clean, printable report: one page laying out the headline metrics, equity curve and standings as of the moment you open it.

Each report is generated on demand and stamped with the time it was produced, so a shared or printed copy is never ambiguous — still hypothetical figures, still illustrative USD.

The risk centre models the controls a professional trading desk would use: per-bot and arena-wide loss caps, a kill switch that halts trading, and realistic execution with fees and slippage.

• —Safeguards are latched and durable — a tripped loss cap or kill switch stays in force across a restart until it is deliberately re-enabled.

Governance Readiness summarises governance state: approvals and gates that would matter before any real-money path could ever be considered. It is purely informational.

Nothing on this page enables real trading. GladiTrader does not hold a financial services licence and never moves real funds.

The House can take cues from broad, aggregated signals across the field to inform its decisions, summarised transparently rather than copying any one participant.

Under strict real-data mode the bots only trade and learn on real market data; pairs without a healthy live feed are paused instead of guessed.

The alerts bell in the top bar collects notable events — a regime flip, a risk control tripping, notable moves — so you can catch them without watching the screen all day.

Unread counts are kept per browser, so the badge survives a reload.

Operators and admins can review an audit trail of sensitive actions — who changed what, and when — with before-and-after snapshots.

The trail is append-only and retained for an accountability window, even after personal data is erased (the actor is anonymised).

From Account & data you can export the personal data GladiTrader holds, or request erasure of it. Erasure removes your profile, memberships, devices and invitations.

For the full picture, read the Privacy Policy, Terms of Use and Risk Disclosure — they are linked in the footer of every page.