alpaca-llm-bot-v1/README.md

alpaca-llm-bot-v1

Autonomous 2-hour trading loop powered by:

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

Safety defaults

• PAPER_MODE=true
• max order notional $5
• confidence gate >= 0.55 before order placement

Quick start

cp .env.example .env
# fill ALPACA_API_KEY / ALPACA_API_SECRET
chmod +x run.sh
./run.sh

Open dashboard:

• http://<host>:8089/

Trigger immediate cycle:

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

Production notes

• Put behind reverse proxy + auth
• Keep paper mode until behavior validated
• Add hard stop-loss and max daily drawdown before enabling live mode