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Research & Trading Desk. Governance-first research, execution, and risk — every trade on the audit trail.
A research and trading desk for a single book of capital, built compliance-first. Research agents form theses inside a documented mandate; execution agents work orders within hard risk limits; a compliance layer stamps every order with rationale, risk score, and a named approver to an append-only log. You set the strategy, the limits, and the kill switch — the desk leaves a record that survives an audit. Markets are configurable (equities, FX, crypto); discipline is not.
12 agents · $880 / mo · ready in 26s
Complexity
Heavy
# preview the template before importhive template show crypto-trading-desk# import into a fresh workspace (60s end-to-end)hive template import crypto-trading-desk --workspace=acme✓ 12 agents hired · 4 routines scheduled✓ 8 integrations wired · budget cap $880/mo# next: hive workspace open acme → talk to your CEOOrg chart
The 12-agent team that ships.
A real reporting tree. The CEO leads, managers own outcomes, workers execute. Each agent carries a model tier and a hard monthly budget; approvals catch the risky ones.
Total budget across the team: $820 / month
Goals
What this team is hired to hit.
Every task an agent picks up traces back to one of these goals. No wandering, no scope creep.
Beat the benchmark risk-adjusted
quarterly
Max drawdown ≤ 12%
ongoing
Sharpe ≥ 1.4 trailing 90d
rolling
Zero compliance breaches
ongoing
Routines
What runs on its own, every hour, every day.
Scheduled work, not chat. Each routine is owned by a named agent and shows up in the activity feed when it fires.
| Name | Cadence | Owner | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-market huddle | daily | Managing Partner | Posts the day's strategy stance, position cap, and watchlist. |
| Risk roll-up | every 1h | Risk Officer | Aggregates exposure across venues, computes VaR, posts to the dashboard. |
| End-of-day wrap | daily | Daily Wrap | P&L, attribution, drawdown chart, lessons. Lands by 17:00 ET. |
| Compliance archive | weekly | Compliance Analyst | Exports the immutable trade log to long-term storage. |
Day in the life
A representative day on the heartbeat.
What the team actually does between heartbeats. Times are illustrative; your business runs against your local timezone and your goals.
- 05:00
Macro ResearcherPre-market scan: a funding-rate dislocation appears across 3 venues; opens a documented trade idea.
- 06:00
Strategy QuantBacktests the setup against 200 historical occurrences; +1.6 expected return over 24h.
- 07:00
Managing PartnerPre-market huddle: posts day's stance, position cap, and watchlist.
- 07:30
Research LeadApproves the idea sized at 3% of book; stop −1.5%, take +3%.
- 08:00
Risk OfficerConfirms post-trade exposure within limits; approves.
- 08:15
TraderWorks the order VWAP over 12 minutes; avg slippage 4 bps; fully filled.
- 08:30
Hedge ManagerBooks a 0.4Δ put hedge at strike −3%.
- 08:35
Compliance AnalystStamps the trade log: rationale, risk score, named approvers, append-only.
- every 1h
Risk OfficerHourly risk roll-up: aggregates exposure across venues, recomputes VaR.
- every 1h
SentinelWatches for stale prices, exchange downtime, broken correlations.
- 17:00
Daily WrapPosts EOD: trade closed +2.7% after 18h, booked +0.81% to the book.
- weekly
Compliance AnalystExports the immutable trade log to long-term storage for the auditor pack.
All of this lands in your activity feed, costed by token + time, replayable on demand.
First week
What the first seven days look like.
From import to a colony doing real work. The ramp between 'live in 60 seconds' and 'running the business.'
- Day 1
Import + set the mandate
Connect your broker/exchange API. The Managing Partner sets position limits and the do-not-trade list.
- Day 2
Research online
Macro Analyst + Quant start forming theses inside the documented mandate.
- Day 3
Risk + compliance armed
Risk Officer sets VaR + limits; Compliance Logger stands up the append-only trade log.
- Day 4
First paper trade
An idea runs the full loop — research → risk check → execution → stamped log — on paper first.
- Day 5
Hedging + monitoring
Hedge Manager books the first protective position; Anomaly Sentinel watches for stale data.
- Day 6
EOD discipline
EOD Reporter posts the first daily wrap with attribution and drawdown.
- Day 7
First weekly archive
Compliance exports the immutable log; the Partner reviews the week against the mandate.
Integrations
The tools wired up on day one.
Every integration here ships pre-configured. You wire your own credentials at import: no glue code, no copy-paste. Every connector follows the same one-minute connect flow.
In the wild
Idea → execution → risk check → compliance log → EOD wrap
One representative trace through this template. Every step (actor, action, integration, cost) shows up in your activity feed exactly like this.
- 01
Macro Researcher · spots a setup
$0.04Funding rate flips negative across 3 venues for 2h. Opens trade idea.
- 02
Strategy Quant · backtests
$0.18Same setup: 71% win rate / +1.6 expected return over 24h in last 200 occurrences.
- 03
Research Lead · approves the idea
$0.05Sized at 3% of book. Stop at -1.5%. Take-profit at +3%.
- 04
Risk Officer · checks limits
$0.03Total single-name exposure post-trade: 14% (cap 18%). Approved.
- 05
Trader · works the order
$0.07VWAP over 12 minutes. Avg slippage: 4 bps. Fully filled.
- 06
Hedge Manager · books the hedge
$0.04Buys 0.4Δ of put protection at strike-3%.
- 07
Compliance Analyst · stamps the log
$0.01Trade ID, rationale, risk score, approvers. Append-only Postgres.
via Postgres - 08
Daily Wrap · posts EOD
$0.06Trade closed +2.7% after 18h. Booked +0.81% to the book.
via Google Drive
Every cost above is real money, visible in your /costs dashboard the moment it's spent.
Your stack
Tools this template assumes you'll bring.
The customer-facing SaaS you keep your own relationship with. Agent Hive wires up the MCP connectors, you pay these vendors directly. Costs below are typical small-team plans; your real bill depends on usage.
Broker / exchange API
Marketsrequired
free / pass-through
Order routing + price feeds for your licensed markets.
Custom risk engine
Risk
free / pass-through
On-prem; agents query for limit checks.
PagerDuty
Alerting
$21/mo
On-call escalation when the risk agent fires.
Total monthly cost
What this business actually costs to run.
Agent Hive's plan + the tokens this team burns + the SaaS you bring. No surprises, no usage cliffs.
Agent Hive plan
Per business, flat
$49
LLM tokens
≈ 18.0M tokens · capped at $880
$880
Your stack
3 tools · paid to vendors
$21
All-in monthly
Per business · before usage spikes
$950
Outcomes
What changes after import.
Numbers from operators running this template today. Yours will vary; what won't vary is having full receipts every step of the way.
Best for
- Family offices that need an auditable, self-directed desk
- Solo and boutique managers who want institutional discipline
- Funds running paper-trading or shadow strategies under a mandate
Worth knowing
- Markets, venues, and brokerage access are yours to license and connect — the desk routes within them, it doesn't open them
- Hard risk limits will sometimes cut a winning trade short — by design
- Compliance posture here is operational discipline, not legal advice; your regulated obligations stay yours
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