> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.hyperoru.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> From zero to a live AI trader in about ten minutes.

This quickstart takes you from signing up to watching your first AI trader analyze the market. Nothing here requires writing code.

## What you will need

* An email address and a password for your Hyperoru account.
* An API key for a language model. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, or any OpenAI-compatible provider works. Free trials work fine for testing.
* An exchange account on Hyperliquid or Binance Futures -- **testnet is recommended for your first trader**.

<Tip>
  If you are nervous about real money, you can do every step of this guide on testnet and never touch real funds. Switch to mainnet only when you are satisfied with how your trader behaves.
</Tip>

## Step 1: Create your Hyperoru account

Sign up on the Hyperoru dashboard. Once you are in, you will land on the main overview showing traders, positions, and recent decisions.

## Step 2: Create an AI trader

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open AI Traders">
    Click **AI Traders** in the sidebar, then **Create new trader**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Name your trader">
    Give it a descriptive name. Something like "BTC Swing Trader" or "ETH Breakout v1" is ideal -- you will want to tell it apart from others later.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick a language model">
    Select a provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, or a custom endpoint), paste your API key, and choose a model. `gpt-4o` and `claude-sonnet-4-20250514` are solid defaults.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Connect an exchange wallet">
    In the trader's **Exchange** tab, pick Hyperliquid or Binance and follow the per-exchange instructions in [Exchange setup](/trading/exchange-setup). Hyperliquid uses an **API Wallet**; Binance uses an **API key and secret**. Always restrict keys to the narrowest permissions possible.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  When you set up Binance, untick **Enable Withdrawals** on the API key. Hyperoru never needs withdrawal access to trade on your behalf.
</Warning>

## Step 3: Pick a strategy type

Your AI trader needs a strategy that decides what to do when it looks at the market.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Prompt strategy" icon="message" href="/trading/prompt-strategies">
    Describe how you want to trade in plain English. The language model reads live market context and returns a decision. Best for judgment-based trading and if you do not code.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Program strategy" icon="code" href="/trading/program-strategies">
    Write a short Python class with rules you control exactly. Best for deterministic trading, precise risk management, and strategies you want to backtest repeatably.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

You can always switch later, and you can run multiple traders with different strategies side by side.

## Step 4: Decide when the strategy runs

Strategies do not run constantly -- that would be expensive and noisy. They run when a **signal** fires.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Signals">
    Click **Signals** in the sidebar, then **Create signal pool**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick symbols">
    Add the tickers you want to watch, for example BTC, ETH, SOL.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add trigger conditions">
    Pick from built-in conditions: price breakouts, open-interest surges, funding-rate spikes, volume anomalies, or custom metric thresholds.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Combine with AND / OR">
    Combine conditions with AND/OR logic so the signal only fires when the market state really matches what you want.
  </Step>
</Steps>

See [Signal system](/trading/signal-system) for every built-in condition and how to compose them.

## Step 5: Go live

<Steps>
  <Step title="Bind the strategy">
    In the trader's settings, point it at the strategy you created in step 3.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Attach the signal pool">
    Set the signal pool from step 4 as the trigger source.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start trading">
    Toggle **Start Trading**. From this point on, whenever your signal fires, your strategy analyzes the market and may place trades.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Watch it work">
    Open the **Arena** view to see decisions as they happen, or the **Analytics** dashboard to review performance over time.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Warning>
  Crypto perpetuals carry real risk of losing more than your initial margin. Start small, start on testnet, and scale up only once the trader behaves the way you expect.
</Warning>

## What next

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Card title="Core concepts" icon="lightbulb" href="/guides/concepts">
    Traders, strategies, signals, decisions -- the vocabulary of Hyperoru.
  </Card>

  <Card title="How the platform works" icon="diagram-project" href="/guides/how-it-works">
    A plain-English tour of what happens between a signal firing and an order reaching the exchange.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Trust and safety" icon="shield-check" href="/guides/security-and-trust">
    Everything we do to keep your keys and funds safe.
  </Card>

  <Card title="FAQ" icon="circle-question" href="/guides/faq">
    Questions new users most often ask.
  </Card>
</Columns>