AegisAlpha — Autonomous Event-Driven Options Agent

AegisAlpha is an autonomous, event-driven options trading agent built for the Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon. Instead of relying on a fixed watchlist, AegisAlpha uses an autonomous AI screener to find meaningful market catalysts and identify opportunities worth investigating. When an event is detected, AegisAlpha gathers real-time market and options data. Bull and Bear AI agents independently build opposing views, while a Trader agent evaluates both sides and forms the final trading thesis. If an opportunity exists, the system selects and validates an options contract using factors such as liquidity, spread, DTE, Greeks, implied volatility, and price. It then produces a transparent 0–100 Opportunity Score. The most important layer is the deterministic Risk Governor. AI can recommend a trade, but it cannot override hard risk rules. Position limits, exposure, drawdown, liquidity, and execution safeguards are checked before any order can proceed. If the trade passes every gate, it is executed through Alpaca Paper Trading and monitored automatically. If it fails, the system rejects it—and records exactly why. The entire process is visible through AegisAlpha's Decision Journal, showing AI reasoning, Bull/Bear perspectives, option selection, validation, risk decisions, executions, and rejected opportunities. AI proposes. Data informs. Risk governs. Code executes. AegisAlpha is not built to predict the market with certainty. It is built to make autonomous trading smarter, more transparent, and more controlled.