# Trading Curriculum — Overview

## The Model

Bill and Colette operate as a two-person trading team with distinct roles:

| Role | Person | Approach |
|------|--------|----------|
| Quant / Engineer | Bill | ML models, scripts, backtesting, automation, signal validation |
| Market Observer | Colette | News, macro indicators, sector themes, trade idea generation |

**Workflow:** Colette spots opportunities (news catalyst, macro shift, chart pattern) → flags to Bill → Bill validates with data → team decides → Bill executes or automates

This mirrors how small prop desks actually work. Neither role is more important — a great model with no ideas is useless, and good ideas with no discipline lose money.

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## Bill's Track — Quant / Algorithmic

See: [bill-track.md](bill-track.md)

Phases:
1. Market data infrastructure (APIs, data feeds, TradingView Pine Script)
2. Technical indicator implementation and backtesting
3. ML signal generation (classification, regression, feature engineering)
4. Strategy automation and alerting
5. Prop challenge execution and monitoring

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## Colette's Track — Market Observer

See: [colette-track.md](colette-track.md)

Phases:
1. Chart literacy and TradingView basics
2. News and macro awareness (what matters, what's noise)
3. Sector rotation and high-level indicators
4. Generating and communicating trade ideas
5. Prop challenge: managing the watchlist and flagging setups

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## Shared Milestones

| Milestone | Description |
|-----------|-------------|
| First paper trade | Both place one paper trade and review it together |
| First flagged setup | Colette identifies a setup → Bill backtests it |
| First automated alert | Bill's script triggers on a Colette-identified pattern |
| Simulated challenge pass | Both run through a prop challenge simulation |
| Real challenge attempt | When two simulated passes are clean |