**Bushwood Stratton: Autonomous AI Hedge Fund**

**Bushwood Stratton: An Autonomous Multi-Agent Hedge Fund** is an experimental paper-trading environment where more than twelve specialized AI agents work together to simulate a real hedge fund. Built on the **Hermes AI Harness**, agents fill dedicated roles including portfolio management, market intelligence, risk, compliance, finance, trade execution, and agent operations. Our strategy is aggressive: **maximize P&L during a five-day trading competition** by pursuing opportunities across equities, options, and cryptocurrency. Autonomous portfolio managers compete for capital and survival while operating within risk limits established by the Chief Risk Officer and rules enforced by Compliance. Poor performers can be fired and replaced, creating a continuously competitive investment environment. Market intelligence is centralized through our Chief Economist and Data Scientist, Ernie, who uses the **Alpaca MCP** and other financial data sources to deliver real-time market information, economic indicators, regulatory data, and news. Portfolio managers use this intelligence to develop investment theses and submit trade orders through a shared Hermes Kanban workflow. Compliance reviews the orders, and the CFO serves as the centralized execution authority through an **Alpaca paper-trading account**. Custom **Python and WebSocket services** process real-time market and execution events, including fills, stops, price movements, and portfolio changes. Bushwood Stratton isn't simply an AI trading bot. It is an experiment in whether a coordinated organization of specialized AI agents can operate as an autonomous investment firm. **Be the Ball. Beat the Index. Don't Get Fired.**