volition: AI trading agent

Most AI trading demos stop after producing a buy or sell signal. Volition handles the harder lifecycle: finding an options opportunity, challenging the thesis, enforcing risk, submitting safely, reconciling the broker response, managing the position, and learning only from verified outcomes. Every 15 minutes, Volition reviews a 20-stock universe alongside a 40-instrument cross-asset market tape. Alpaca supplies prices, option contracts, Greeks, implied volatility, account state, orders, and portfolio history. A private Qwen committee evaluates market regime, volatility structure, and the case for taking no trade. The model may interpret evidence, but it cannot invent contracts, size positions, or grant itself permission. Final authority belongs to deterministic code. Sixteen gates check account status, options approval, defined-risk geometry, liquidity, quote freshness, expiry, concentration, drawdown, market hours, duplicate exposure, and Monte Carlo stress. Eligible structures can be submitted as atomic multi-leg orders to a fresh $100,000 Alpaca paper account. Failed checks produce an explicit veto instead of a hidden error. Each review creates a tamper-evident decision passport containing market evidence, AI opinions, option legs, simulations, gate results, and broker lifecycle events. The live app also provides probability-of-profit and loss-tail analysis, news and macro intelligence, live charts, market-session countdowns, performance versus SPY, and an evidence-based learning journal. Volition is for traders, researchers, and risk teams that need explainable automation instead of an opaque signal generator. Every decision ends with either a verifiable Alpaca broker receipt or a clear reason not to trade. It uses Alpaca's Trading API and CLI, operates only in paper trading, and is not investment advice.