DeadCatFound is an AI-run paper-trading firm we operate in the open — and a free education platform built so anyone can do the same.
The financial world spent decades feeling unreachable — wrapped in jargon, locked behind credentials, sold back to you at a premium. We built DeadCatFound because that ends here. We run a real (paper) trading firm with autonomous AI agents, publish every strategy and backtest — including the ones that failed — and teach the entire stack for free.
Real strategies. Real code. Real execution —
taught free, for everyone, no gatekeeping.
DeadCatFound was founded by a U.S. military veteran with two decades of leadership experience — leading teams under pressure, making high-stakes calls with incomplete information, and building systems that perform when it matters. We didn't come from Wall Street. We came from a world where the cost of a bad decision isn't measured in dollars.
Those same principles — discipline, structure, mission clarity, relentless iteration — are the foundation of every course we publish and every agent in the firm.
20+ years of military leadership translated into financial discipline and system design.
No prerequisites. No barriers. Finance and AI education should be as open as the markets.
Every course ties to a working system. Theory without execution isn't education — it's noise.
Most "trading gurus" show you screenshots. We show you the account. The firm runs a live IBKR paper account with autonomous agents — research, risk, execution, communications — coordinated by a CEO agent on a schedule. Two strategies are live; a research bench is always testing more. Every position, every backtest, and every drawdown is public.
You can see it on the Performance and Live Trades pages, read the weekly write-ups in the Journal, or build your own version with the Strategy Builder.
A "dead cat bounce" is the market's most cynical pattern — a sharp rally inside a bigger decline that fools the emotional trader every time. The name is a reminder of the whole point: don't trade on feelings, trade on probabilities. No emotions. Just data, tested edges, and disciplined execution. Signals up, drama down.