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Automate Your Prop Firm Trading

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Matteo Conti

Matteo Conti, hedge fund manager and former institutional market maker who spent 7 years at one of Europe’s largest banks running €15 billion a year, teaches retail traders how to stop treating prop firm challenges as a lottery ticket and start treating them as a business. Fifteen lessons on the institutional pipeline, Monte Carlo simulations, AI coding, and the full strategy for passing a challenge and maximizing payouts.

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OVERVIEW

What You’ll Learn in Matteo Conti’s Automate Your Prop Firm Trading Masterclass

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This free masterclass is Matteo Conti’s framework for passing prop firm challenges using the same systematic process he used across 7 years as a market maker at one of Europe’s biggest banks, trading €15 billion a year across 10 million clients. You’ll learn the institutional pipeline: idea → rules → code → backtest → validate → size → deploy, why coding was the main barrier between retail and institutional for decades (Goldman Sachs has 2/3 of its workforce in developers), and why ChatGPT going mainstream in 2023 collapsed that gap by giving you a full dev team at your fingertips.

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Matteo then applies the process to one problem: maximizing your probability of passing a prop firm challenge. He walks through the NQ Drift VWAP Pullback Strategy as a worked example, maps all account rules into code, and runs 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations to find the optimal contract size, showing how his method hits 37.5% pass probability on a 50K account versus Topstep’s 12.4% average. The masterclass closes with the funded phase, where the objective shifts from maximizing pass rate to maximizing expected payouts, with the full math on the 50K account’s $13,000 maximum total payout across 6 payouts (1,500 / 1,500 / 2,000 / 2,500 / 2,500 / 3,000).

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CURRICULUM

What’s Inside the 

Automate Your Prop Firm Trading

All Lessons

01

Introduction

4:00
02

The Institutional Trader Pipeline

4:00
03

What Institutional Traders Actually Look For

3:00
04

The Tools You Need to Trade Like an Institution

5:00
05

The NQ Drift VWAP Pullback Strategy

17:00
06

Understanding the Prop Firm Offering

7:00
07

The Barrier Problem and Engineering the Shape

8:00
08

The Four-Step Approach

3:00
09

Mapping the Account and Drawdown Types

11:00
10

Choosing the Right Account Size

5:00
11

Measuring the Shape of Your Strategy

13:00
12

Simulate and Optimize

31:00
13

Operate the Machine

14:00
14

Running Multiple Strategies

21:00
15

The Funded Phase

13:00

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About the Instructor,

Matteo Conti

Matteo Conti is a hedge fund manager and former institutional market maker who spent 7 years on the equity desk of one of Europe’s biggest banks, trading around 15 billion euros a year and generating 8-figure yearly P&L. He made markets in single stocks, funds, and futures for a client base of around 10 million people across the Nordics, and his first eight months as a market maker ran straight into the COVID crash, which he describes as the moment the playing field flattened for everyone on the floor. Today he is building his own fund and teaching retail traders the exact process he followed on the desk.


Matteo’s message is simple: institutional traders don’t make money because they have better infrastructure or more capital. They make money because they follow a process. Idea, rules, code, backtest, validate, size, deploy. 90 to 95 percent of institutional ideas get rejected during validation, and only 5 to 10 percent ever trade live. On top of that, institutions run multiple uncorrelated strategies that compensate for each other across market conditions. With AI coding tools, quality market data, and good backtesting software, Matteo believes retail traders can now follow the same process from home, and the gap is shrinking at a pace he calls unprecedented.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Automate Your Prop Firm Trading Masterclass about?

A free 15-lesson series with Matteo Conti covering how to apply the institutional trading process to one specific problem: maximizing your probability of passing a prop firm challenge. It covers the institutional pipeline, the three tools you need, the NQ Drift VWAP Pullback Strategy as a worked example, mapping prop firm rules into code, running Monte Carlo simulations to find the optimal contract size, and operating the strategy live through the funded phase.

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Who is Matteo Conti?

Matteo Conti is a hedge fund manager and former institutional market maker. He spent 7 years on the equity desk of one of Europe’s biggest banks, trading around 15 billion euros a year with 8-figure yearly P&L. He now teaches retail traders the same systematic process he used on the desk.

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What is a Monte Carlo simulation in trading?

A Monte Carlo simulation randomizes the order of your historical trades thousands of times to show you the full distribution of possible outcomes for your strategy. Matteo uses it to find the optimal contract size for a prop firm account, understand your real worst-5% and best-5% outcomes, and tell the difference between an underperforming strategy and a broken one.

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Do I need to know how to code to take this masterclass?

No. Matteo shows how to use ChatGPT or Claude as your developer. He treats AI like a real coder, building strategies step by step (entry first, then exits, stops, targets) and validating each piece before moving on. He also walks through MultiCharts, his preferred backtesting and automation platform, which is built for traders without a coding background.

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Can I use this masterclass if I don’t trade prop firms?

Yes. The institutional process (idea, rules, code, backtest, validate, size, deploy, run multiple uncorrelated strategies) applies to any systematic trading approach. The prop firm angle is just where Matteo chose to apply it in this masterclass.

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Is the Automate Your Prop Firm Trading Masterclass free?

Yes. All 15 lessons are free to watch on Chart Academy.

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