Team Idea
Helmsman is a multi-agent AI options trading system built on Alpaca's infrastructure. BackOffice, Research, Trader, and Bot are orchestrated by an APScheduler engine on a precise market-hours schedule, with a real-time STDIN interface for portfolio state, positions, and on-demand LLM
queries.
The core design principle is a hard separation between AI and execution. LLM agents reason about what to trade; a deterministic Python Bot decides whether it's allowed and places the order. Every rule that can move money is hardcoded and auditable. If the inference provider goes
down, the Bot keeps running.
Two strategies run on Alpaca's paper environment: short put spreads at 7-10 DTE across 8 underlyings, and 1DTE iron condors on SPY/QQQ. Both exit at 50% profit or a DTE threshold, managed automatically throughout the trading day.
Team Members
Asher Benjamin
ABLabs
Developer
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