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Impressive equity curves are easy to share. This video shows you how to build the system behind them.

I built an AI trading desk with Hermes Agent that can research trading ideas, develop strategies, backtest them, and organize the results in a custom Mission Control dashboard.

In this full guide, I take you through the setup step by step: installing Hermes, connecting an AI model, adding the TradingKit backtesting tools, building your agent team, and creating your own control panel.

Then I show you how to take the resulting Pine Script into TradingView, check the backtest, and connect strategy alerts to a broker through Trigger.trade.

But finding an impressive backtest is only part of the process.

After more than five years of building and testing automated trading systems, I’ve tested over 2,000 strategies and currently trade seven. At the end, I explain what that experience has taught me about selecting strategies and deciding what deserves further testing.

## In this video, you’ll discover:

✅ How to install Hermes Agent and complete the initial setup
✅ How I connect my existing ChatGPT subscription and select GPT-6 Astra
✅ How to set up Telegram and use the Hermes desktop interface
✅ How to connect TradingKit’s backtesting tools through an MCP server
✅ How to run an initial BTCUSDT strategy backtest
✅ How to build an AI trading research team with reusable prompts
✅ How I structure agents and schedules to reduce unnecessary token use
✅ How to create a Mission Control dashboard and connect your agents to it
✅ How to export Pine Script and verify strategy results in TradingView
✅ How to connect TradingView alerts and webhooks to Trigger.trade
✅ Why forward testing matters before committing money to a strategy
✅ What five years of automated trading have taught me

## ⏰ Video Chapters

0: 00 – The Hermes Trading Bot and Backtest Results
0: 43 – What We’re Building
1: 44 – What Hermes Agent Does
2: 31 – Installing Hermes Agent
3: 13 – Connecting Your AI Provider and ChatGPT Subscription
4: 13 – Selecting the Model and Reasoning Settings
4: 41 – Setting Up Telegram
5: 50 – Using Hermes Desktop
6: 48 – Creating Your First Bot
7: 29 – Connecting TradingKit for Strategy Backtesting
8: 55 – Running the First BTCUSDT Backtest
9: 44 – Building the AI Trading Research Desk
10: 25 – Agent Roles, Schedules, and Token Efficiency
12: 23 – Creating Your Mission Control Dashboard
13: 34 – Connecting the Agents to Mission Control
14: 28 – Before Automation: Forward Testing Your Strategies
15: 46 – Moving Your Pine Script into TradingView
16: 25 – Connecting Your Broker Through Trigger.trade
17: 15 – Configuring TradingView Alerts and Webhooks
17: 59 – Connecting Hermes to the Trading Tools
19: 19 – Five Years of Automated Trading: Real Talk
20: 24 – Community Support and Next Steps

## Prompts & Resources

👉🏻 Get the Hermes trading-desk prompts, Mission Control prompt, and agent connection prompt:
[ADD HERMES RESOURCE LINK OR CONFIRMED DELIVERY INSTRUCTIONS]

👉🏻 TradingKit:
https://tradingkit.com/

👉🏻 Trigger.trade:
https://trigger.trade/

## Tools Used

Hermes Agent
OpenAI / ChatGPT subscription connection
GPT-6 Astra
Telegram
TradingKit / TraderDev MCP
TradingView and Pine Script
Trigger.trade
Custom Mission Control dashboard

## What’s free, and what may cost money?

I use free tools where possible and reuse existing subscriptions in this walkthrough. Depending on your setup, AI subscriptions or API usage, TradingView features, and automation services may involve costs. Access included with a paid membership is not the same as a completely free setup.

## Before You Trade

⚠️ Everything shown is for education and entertainment only, not financial advice.

The equity curves shown are backtests, not proof of future live profits. A strategy still needs forward testing, realistic trading costs, and ongoing monitoring. This tutorial demonstrates the build and automation setup; it is not a documented live-profit experiment.

AI can help you research and build faster. You still need to understand the rules and validate the results.

Trade smarter.
Test everything.
Let the data do the talking.

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