"cubiczan team on Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon Hackathon"
Team Idea
NewsFlow Trader is an autonomous LLM trading agent . It reads financial news, runs each headline through GLM-4.6 via z-ai-web-dev-sdk for structured JSON sentiment ({label, score, confidence, reasoning}), passes every proposed trade through a configurable risk guard (max positions, max position %, sentiment threshold, paper-only), and submits approved orders to Alpaca's paper Trading API. The pipeline runs in a Bun mini-service on port 3003, streaming every decision as a socket.io event to a live Next.js 16 dashboard — judges watch TICK → NEWS → LLM → ORDER → FILL events arrive in real-time alongside the positions they create. All state persists to shared Prisma+SQLite (NewsItem, Decision, Position, AgentEvent), the dashboard ships with sliders to tune watchlist, tick interval, and risk thresholds live, and a deterministic mock Alpaca client + mock news generator kicks in when no API keys are set — so the demo always works, zero credentials needed.
Team Members
Shyam Desigan
impactquadrant655
