tradernetwork/projectx-desk

Position sizing and discipline for TopstepX micro futures.
It sizes every trade from your remaining loss room, refuses what you can't afford,
and locks you out after a losing streak. Free, MIT, runs offline on a practice market.
Built by Michael at TraderMatrix . We track the moves. TraderMatrix helps you trade them.
Unofficial: not affiliated with ProjectX, TopstepX or Topstep.
Who it is for: futures traders on prop-firm evals (the funded-account tests) who want position sizing and discipline
enforced for them, and optionally an AI assistant that can watch the desk and stage ideas but can never place an order.
No signals of its own. No auto-trading.
What is in it: one guarded order path (a test fails the build if any other file can place an order); sizing off your loss limit
with an ATR stop that tucks beyond a level price has respected; real buy and sell volume built from the trade tape, plus 1024, 2048
and 4096-trade tick charts; GEX levels drawn on the chart; and an analyst-callout alert that flashes when a fresh futures entry
posts, switches the chart to it when you are flat, and, if you turn it on (PXFEEDSTAGE=1), offers a one-click STAGE (you still hold PLACE yourself).
Terms: R is the amount you risk on a trade. ATR is how far price typically moves. STAGE drafts an order; nothing
is sent until you hold PLACE. MCP is a standard way for AI assistants to use tools. More in the glossary.
Practice market with synthetic prices. Nothing on screen is a result.
> Alpha. Not financial advice. The order path is tested against the built-in practice market only: no order has ever been placed
> through a real gateway. The read side (login, quotes, the trade tape, bars, both hubs) has been run against a real TopstepX Combine
> simulated account. Real accounts are blocked until you turn them on. Read what is unverified before you
> point it at anything. The code has been reviewed by several AI models and one agent audit (the results),
> not yet by a human futures-execution engineer.
## Start here: this is not a website
If you clicked the GitHub link and only saw files and code, that is what GitHub shows. There is nothing to open from the link. The desk is a
program that runs on your own computer, and you view it in your browser at an address only your computer can see (http://127.0.0.1:8613).
That is on purpose: your orders have to come from your own device, so do not put it on a cloud server.
You need Python 3.10 or newer and a terminal. No account, no money, no broker: the first run uses a built-in practice market with made-up prices.
1. Get the code. Either git clone https://github.com/tradernetwork/projectx-desk, or on the GitHub page press the green Code button,
then Download ZIP, unzip it, and open a terminal inside the unzipped folder (it is called projectx-desk-main).
2. Install it, once.
bash
python3 -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Start it.
bash
./rundev.sh
4. Open the address it prints (http://127.0.0.1:8613/?ai=1) in your browser. Leave the terminal window open: closing it stops the desk, and Ctrl+C stops it too.
You should see a chart, a size box with a number and its reasons, and a PLACE button. Pick a risk chip, press STAGE, then press and hold PLACE for 600 ms.