Day 0 · Sunday before Day 1

Cohort kickoff.

One live session. Everyone shows up. By the end of the hour, you have your Limitless API key in your terminal and a clear path into Day 1.

60 min live · Google Meet · recorded for makeup

Preview Day 1 →

Pre-work

06

Six items, about 30 minutes total. Complete them before the kickoff session. If any of them stall, post in #trader-lab with [help] in the first line, the coach (or an early-arrival cohort member) will jump in.

Want the fuller walkthrough with smoke-test, .env pattern, and bonus-pack clone? See the full setup page.

  1. 01

    Create or sign in to your Claude account.

    Go to claude.ai. Free tier is fine for Day 0; Claude Pro is recommended for the full week.

  2. 02

    Connect your wallet and confirm USDC + ETH balance.

    Visit limitless.exchange. Connect the external wallet you applied with (MetaMask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet, or similar). Confirm at least $5 of USDC on Base for trades plus a dollar or two of ETH on Base for gas, that’s enough for the entire 7-day exercise.

  3. 03

    Generate a Limitless API key.

    Profile menu → Api keys → create new. You’ll get a token id and a base64 secret. Copy both immediately, the secret is shown only once. Store both in a password manager.

    API Academy · Module 03 walks through this
  4. 04

    Open a terminal and confirm it works.

    macOS = Terminal or iTerm. Windows = PowerShell or Windows Terminal. Linux = whatever you use. Run echo hello. If it prints “hello,” you’re ready. (If “terminal” means nothing yet, that’s fine, we’ll cover it on the call.)

  5. 05

    Read the security pre-flight (10 min).

    Open the API Academy security pre-flight and read it once. Coach checks at the kickoff call: did you read security.html? Key handling, signing safety, key rotation: these are the rails the entire week rides on, especially Day 4’s first programmatic order. Also skim setup.html if you want the fuller environment walkthrough.

  6. 06

    Block 90 minutes a day for the next 7 days.

    Same time slot each day works best. Get coffee ready. Mute Slack. Tell whoever needs to know you’re building this week. Day 1 starts Monday morning.

60-minute agenda

06
0 – 5

Welcome & cohort introductions

Names, wallets, time zones. Coach introduces themselves and frames the week.

5 – 15

Why API trading wins

The conversion thesis: bot doesn’t sleep, recycles capital faster, no emotion. Quick walk-through of the “Why API” section from the landing page.

15 – 25

Walk-through of the 7-day arc

What each day ships (panel-first arc: infrastructure Day 2, panel Day 3, first order Day 4), where the bonus pack drops (Day 3 mid-morning), and how the 3 Google Meet calls + daily check-ins in #trader-lab work.

25 – 40

Live first-call together

Coach screen-shares. Everyone runs python bonus/verify-setup.py on their own machine, the smoke test makes the HMAC-signed call to /portfolio/positions for you and prints all green ticks. Nobody leaves this segment without a green response.

40 – 50

Pair-up & strategy hint

Each cohort member gets one buddy with a similar coding background. Buddies cover for each other when one gets stuck. Quick teaser of the starter mean-reversion strategy.

50 – 60

Q&A & Day 1 launch

Open mic. Coach posts the Day 1 link in #trader-lab. Day 1 unlocks at 9am local on Monday.

What to bring

05

The first-call moment

In the 25–40 minute block of the agenda, everyone runs the same command together. The goal is mechanical: confirm every cohort member’s API key, secret, and HMAC signing path are wired up before Day 1. If verify-setup.py prints all green ticks, you’re alive on the wire.

The smoke test calls the verified endpoint GET /portfolio/positions with the three HMAC headers (lmts-api-key + lmts-timestamp + lmts-signature) per docs.limitless.exchange/developers/authentication. The response is your portfolio positions (an authenticated endpoint — a 200 proves your signing works), the script reads it for you and reports OK.

API Academy · Module 03 walks through this in depth

After kickoff

04

Missed kickoff?

Recording & makeup session.

The Google Meet call is recorded and the link drops into #trader-lab within 24 hours. There’s also a 30-min makeup session on Day 2 evening for cohort members who couldn’t make the live hour. Ask in #trader-lab with [help] and we’ll schedule you in. You won’t fall behind if you watch the recording before Day 2.