Blackshore Technologies

Open Curriculum

Introductory courses from the Blackshore Academy curriculum. No sign-up required — just pick a course and start learning.

Beginner~45 min

Intro to AI Coding

Build Software Without Writing Code

Discover how AI coding tools let anyone build real software. No prior experience needed — just a laptop and curiosity. See what's possible when the barrier to entry disappears.

AI ToolsNo Experience RequiredLive Demo
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Beginner~30 min

Intro to Coding via Algo Trading

Part 1 — Your First Strategy

Learn how code works by watching AI build a real trading strategy in Quantide. Variables, conditions, loops, and functions — taught through prices, signals, and markets.

AI-AugmentedQuantideTradingNo Experience Required
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Beginner~40 min

Building & Testing Strategies

Part 2 — Backtesting & Iteration

Go deeper: decomposition, backtesting, reading results, and iterating with AI. Direct Cody to refine your strategy and learn to think like a quant.

QuantideBacktestingIterationPart 1 Recommended
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Beginner~30 min

Understanding Market Data

Candles, Timeframes & Price Action

OHLCV candles, timeframes, volume, and how to read price action — the raw data every strategy is built on. Learn how Quantide pulls and structures market data from 100+ exchanges, and how to choose the right timeframe for your strategy.

QuantideOHLCVTimeframesPrice Action
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Beginner~40 min

Building Trading Indicators

RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands & Beyond

The indicators that power professional strategies — built and visualized in Quantide. Understand what each indicator measures, when to use it, and how to combine them into signal logic. Stop following indicators blindly and start understanding the math.

QuantideRSIMACDBollinger BandsIndicators
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Beginner~40 min

Strategy Design Patterns

Trend, Mean Reversion, Momentum & More

The major strategy archetypes and when each works. Trend-following, mean reversion, momentum, breakout, and statistical arbitrage — each one built and backtested in Quantide. Learn to match strategy type to market regime.

QuantideStrategy DesignTrendMean Reversion
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Beginner~35 min

Risk Management & Position Sizing

The Math That Keeps You Alive

Position sizing, stop losses, drawdown limits, Kelly criterion, and portfolio heat — the discipline that separates surviving traders from blown accounts. Build risk rules into your Quantide strategies and see how they change backtest outcomes dramatically.

QuantideRiskPosition SizingKelly Criterion
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Intermediate~35 min

Backtesting Traps & Overfitting

Why Most Backtests Lie

Overfitting, curve fitting, look-ahead bias, survivorship bias, and the traps that make strategies look profitable on paper and fail live. Learn walk-forward analysis, out-of-sample testing, and how to build strategies that generalize — all inside Quantide.

QuantideOverfittingWalk-ForwardOut-of-Sample
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Intermediate~40 min

Portfolio Strategies

Multi-Asset, Correlation & Diversification

Move beyond single-asset strategies. Build portfolio-level systems in Quantide that trade multiple assets, manage correlation risk, and dynamically allocate capital. Understand why diversification is the only free lunch in finance.

QuantidePortfolioCorrelationMulti-Asset
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Intermediate~40 min

Strategy Optimization with Q-EVOLVE

AI-Powered Strategy Evolution

Quantide's Q-EVOLVE engine uses AI to evolve your strategies — mutating code, testing variations across market conditions, and finding the strongest version. Learn to guide the optimization, interpret results, and avoid the traps of over-optimization.

QuantideQ-EVOLVEOptimizationAI
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Intermediate~40 min

Going Live

From Paper Trading to Real Capital

Connect to exchanges, paper trade your strategy, validate it in real-time, and deploy with real capital — all from Quantide's Console. Risk controls, position monitoring, alerting, and what to do when things go wrong at 3 AM. The final step from student to operator.

QuantideLive TradingDeploymentExchange API

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