Jaron Escoffery@jrnesc

Augur is an autonomous SPY options agent built for disciplined, transparent paper trading through Alpaca. Every five minutes during the trading session, it receives account, position, and live market context; interprets the auction using Auction Market Theory; forms a falsifiable directional thesis; and chooses to hold, buy a qualifying call or put, or manage an existing position. The system combines model-driven reasoning with deterministic safeguards. Entry proposals are checked for contract quality, delta, expiry, quote freshness, spread, buying power, and loss limits before submission. A separate risk watcher enforces stops, break-even moves, profit targets, and session-close protection. Every decision, tool call, order, and broker-reported fill is stored in an immutable Firestore audit record and published through a live audit site, making the agent’s reasoning and execution independently inspectable.

🌎 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.