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A 32-agent AI trading firm that runs 24/7 without human involvement — built in about 10 minutes with a single copy-and-paste prompt in Claude Code. This walkthrough covers the full setup of a zero-human trading team using Paperclip, the open-source multi-agent orchestration tool that hit 50,000 GitHub stars in two weeks. The system uses a CEO agent that delegates tasks across five departments: research, backtesting, risk management, trade execution, and cost optimization. You talk to the CEO. The CEO talks to everyone else.
The one-shot prompt handles everything from installing dependencies to configuring the TradingView MCP server, creating the agent org chart, assigning roles and responsibilities, and connecting your Anthropic API key. The intake interview asks five questions — firm name, goals, strategy preference, team structure, and risk tolerance — then builds the entire firm automatically inside Paperclip. Once running, the research agent pulls live data from the web, the backtesting agent writes and tests Pine Script strategies on TradingView, and the CEO coordinates all findings before reporting back to you. The whole cycle runs autonomously in the background.
This is part of an ongoing series building AI-powered trading systems with Claude Code, TradingView automation, and multi-agent frameworks. Previous videos covered connecting exchanges to Claude for live execution and building the original 32-agent firm with Paperclip’s creator. The setup in this video is the simplified entry-level version — no coding experience required, works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Paper trading is on by default, so no real capital is at risk until you explicitly connect an exchange API and switch to live execution.
⚠️ The content in this video is for general information and educational purposes only. It represents Lewis Jackson’s personal views and opinions at the time of recording. Nothing here constitutes personalised financial, investment, tax, or legal advice. Always do your own research and, where appropriate, seek advice from a qualified professional before making any financial decisions. The trading firm built in this video runs in paper trading mode by default — no real trades are executed unless you manually connect an exchange and disable paper trading. Any strategies discussed, including zero-drawdown yield strategies, are speculative and based on assumptions that may not prove correct. Past performance and backtested results are not reliable indicators of future results and may not reflect how a strategy performs in live market conditions. Cryptoassets and leveraged trading products are high risk and largely unregulated, and you should be prepared to lose all of the money you invest. Lewis may hold positions in assets mentioned in this video, which represents a potential conflict of interest. Some links in the description are affiliate links — Lewis may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
0: 00 32 agents, zero humans
1: 02 What is Paperclip?
2: 25 How the CEO agent works
4: 15 The cost I learned the hard way
4: 45 Copy-paste prompt on GitHub
5: 40 Intake interview walkthrough
8: 45 Getting your Anthropic API key
9: 40 Agents go live in Paperclip
11: 00 Editing agent roles
12: 00 Assigning your first CEO task
13: 10 Research agent in action
14: 30 CEO delegates to backtesting
15: 20 Pine Script backtest running
16: 10 What happens next