alpaca-llm-bot-v1

Autonomous LLM trading system (paper-first) powered by:

• Alpaca trading API
• Ollama local model inference
• Searx web data ingestion
• FastAPI dark dashboard
• APScheduler autonomous loops

Autonomous behavior

• Curates market/news context every CURATE_INTERVAL_MINUTES (default 30)
• Runs trade decision cycle every TRADE_INTERVAL_HOURS (default 2)
• LLM decides buy/sell/hold per symbol
• Executes only if confidence >= MIN_CONFIDENCE
• Hard risk caps:
  • max $5 order notional (default)
  • max daily notional cap
  • max open positions cap
  • market-open gate

Quick start

cp .env.example .env
# fill ALPACA_API_KEY / ALPACA_API_SECRET
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn app:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8089

Dashboard:

• http://<host>:8089/

Manual triggers:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8089/curate-now
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8089/run-now

Production service (systemd)

sudo cp systemd/alpaca-llm-bot-v1.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now alpaca-llm-bot-v1
sudo systemctl status alpaca-llm-bot-v1

Important

• Keep PAPER_MODE=true until you observe stable behavior.
• This is experimental and not financial advice.