Josh Dvir@forward-pirate-765

Yield-paca is an explainable, safety-first AI trading system. Each trade is a structured conversation: Market Data, News, Macro, and Insider agents research in parallel; Bull and Bear debate; a Research Manager creates a typed plan; a Trader LLM proposes an option structure; deterministic RiskManager and PortfolioManager decide whether it reaches Alpaca. MCP is the safety boundary. Only PortfolioManager receives Alpaca account, position, and trading tools. Analysts get read-only tools; the Trader LLM cannot submit orders, even through prompt injection. Swap the MCP broker and the pipeline can run elsewhere. Three strategies share the same gates: - Mid-Band Movers, 11:30 AM ET: 2h, 4h, and 23.5h buckets; ATM calls. - Overnight Reversal, 9:35 AM ET: winners to calls, losers to defined-risk bear-call spreads; closes 15:55 ET. - Bull/Bear Pipeline, every 15 minutes: briefs, debate, synthesis, LLM design, deterministic approval. Temporal runs parent/child workflows across five task queues; schedules survive worker restarts. Re-triggers are idempotent while positions remain open. Postgres retains agent runs, plans, risk decisions, orders, and fills; AlpacaMirror syncs continuously. RiskManager enforces position, Greeks, and decision-TTL limits. PortfolioManager rechecks approval per leg, preventing naked sell-to-open orders on the level-3 paper account. During the Aug–Sep 2026 hackathon run on paper account PA3PR2RMFE9Y, equity ranged from $89K–$98K intraday. The system placed 60+ orders, recorded 22+ fills, and deployed about $13K through Overnight Reversal. Built with Ruby, Rails, Vue, Temporal, Postgres, Claude via ruby_llm, and MCP servers for Alpaca, TradingView, OptionsFlow, and FRED. Next: per-strategy caps, backtesting, options-flow signals, and adaptive DTE selection. Open source: irox/images/trader.

🌎 Online Hackathon | 💻 Online Build: Sept 26 - Oct 5, 2026 A virtual, global hackathon. Build from anywhere in the world. Dark Factory is the official hackathon of WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, presented by BAND, but you don't need to be in San Jose to take part. For one week, you build a software factory in BAND Desktop: a band of coding agents that plans work, implements it and checks its own results. 🎟️ Bonus for sign-ups: you are eligible for a free ticket to WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose (Sep 23–25). If you do go, stop by the BAND booth: a surprise is waiting for you.

🌎 Online Hackathon | 💻 Month-long challenge | Dates: Sep 1–30, 2026 | 🏆 $10,000 Prize Pool ($5k cash + $5k in AAI credits) A month-long online challenge run by lablab.ai together with AssemblyAI, the Voice AI infrastructure company for builders. Every participant builds on AssemblyAI. You can join at any point — registration stays open for the whole build window, so you can start on day one or pick the project up halfway through and still submit. 🌍 Fully online hackathon. Join and build from anywhere in the world.

🌎 Online Hackathon | 💻 Dates: 28 August–4 September 2026 | 🏆 $6,000 Prize Pool Build AI trading agents on Alpaca — autonomous agents and trading apps using Alpaca's Trading API, MCP server and CLI. 🌍 Fully online hackathon. Join and build from anywhere in the world.