"FluffyMargins team on Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon Hackathon"

Team Idea

Building Contour — an autonomous options agent on Alpaca that measures the shape of the volatility surface every 15 minutes and lets the measurement pick the structure. Everyone sells iron condors. But a condor sells both wings unconditionally, which means half the time you're selling the underpriced side. Contour measures 25-delta skew first and sells only the rich side: put credit spread, call credit spread, condor, or nothing at all. That choice shows up in the order history, not just in the README. It reads the market through Alpaca's MCP server and writes every multi-leg order through the Alpaca CLI — because MCP currently can't marshal a legs array (alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server#97). Twelve deterministic risk gates own every number that touches money; Claude's only authority is to veto. Solo so far, and the trading core is already live and tested. Would love a teammate on the live dashboard (Next.js/Vercel) or on the demo video.

Team Members

Aryan Gorde

aryangorde6

Submission

Contour — the measurement picks the structure

Everyone sells iron condors — both wings, unconditionally, so half the time you sell the side that isn't rich. Contour measures 25-delta skew first and sells only the rich side, on SPY, QQQ and IWM, behind nineteen risk gates and a hash-chained journal.