Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon · paper trading

Theo knows the difference between being right and being lucky.

An autonomous options-trading agent that forms a falsifiable view, prices several ways to express it, sizes by a track record it has to earn, and afterwards scores whether its view was right, its structure was right — or it simply got lucky. Only the first two ever move its confidence.

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Theo, trdrbot's mascot — a winking elf inside a speech-bubble frame with an ascending trend line
Equity $104,347.81 data/journal.jsonl · competence
P&L since $100,000 start +4.3% +$4,347.81
Decisions made 225 137 theses · 88 declined
Forecasts resolved 95 scored at zero capital risk
Profit
Loss
View held
0 reinforce both
0 the view was fine — the structure wasn’t
View failed
0 correct the view; the structure was faithful
0 luck — learn nothing from this

3 of 4 position(s) haven't reached their thesis horizon yet.

The differentiator

Two questions, not one.

Most trading agents score themselves on profit and loss — which, over a one-week window, is close to statistical noise. Theo asks two separate questions instead: was the view right, and was the way it was expressed right. A profit on a wrong view is excluded from what lets it size up — by construction, not by policy.

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Forecast Resolved Sep 2, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC

XLE forecast resolved held