"TARIFF team on Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon Hackathon"

Team Idea

TariffEdge is an autonomous options-trading agent that trades on tariff filings, freight-rate shifts, and geopolitical event data — leading signals most trading bots ignore in favor of price/technical/sentiment data. It monitors 3 tariff-sensitive tickers (a shipper, a semiconductor exporter, an import-heavy retailer), converts GDELT-sourced signal events into rule-based trade decisions with a hard-coded risk gate, and executes defined-risk options spreads live via the Alpaca API. Built on Next.js/TypeScript.

Team Members

Kushal Handigund

Kushal_28

Submission

TariffEdge

TariffEdge is an autonomous options trading agent that converts real-time tariff and trade-policy news (via GDELT) into risk-gated equity option spreads on Alpaca with a hard $500 max-loss cap, full audit trail, and a live P&L dashboard.