QUANTHEA KITCHEN
live experimentAlpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon · Aug 28 – Sep 4, 2026 · paper trading
Live market pulse · autonomous options lab

There is an AI
in the kitchen.

AI proposes. Independent models challenge. Code decides.

An autonomous AI chef trades defined-risk options. Independent reviewers challenge the thesis; deterministic gates retain final authority over whether risk can be taken. Paper money, real markets — not investment advice.

Paper capital Real market data Read-only public surface
Market pulseloading
Display context onlyTransparent broad-market read; never fed back into trading decisions.
How it works

Reasoning is probabilistic. Risk control is deterministic.

01Market dataLive market and account state enter the cycle.
02Hypothesis ledgerExisting beliefs and falsifiers become memory.
03AI chefProposes a thesis and defined-risk ticket.
04AI reviewersIndependently challenge, veto or shrink.
05Risk gatesHard-coded checks can refuse the ticket.
06AlpacaPaper execution and account reconciliation.
07Ledger updateOutcome feeds the next reasoning cycle.
IntelligenceAI may propose a trade.
OversightIndependent AI may challenge it.
AuthorityDeterministic code controls whether capital can be exposed.
Autonomy

System evidence released decisions only

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Competition account

Equity

Curve opens at the scored start, Mon 31 Aug 09:30 ET. Bars from the account's funding day are excluded: the $100,000 journal makes the broker report $200,000 that afternoon, which is a funding artefact, not performance.

Decision flight recorder

Released decisions executions and refusals are equally visible; today remains embargoed until 16:05 ET

Memory

Hypothesis ledger the system remembers what it believed — and what would prove it wrong

StatusDateUnderlyingThesisFalsifierConviction
Deterministic authority

Autonomous, not uncontrollable.

These safeguards live outside the language-model reasoning loop. A compelling narrative does not bypass a failed gate.

Defined-risk onlyTickets must have bounded maximum loss before execution.
Loss & exposure capsHard limits constrain ticket and portfolio risk.
Liquidity gateWide or untradeable option markets can be refused.
Freshness gateStale market inputs are not treated as live.
Volatility-aware limitsRisk parameters can tighten as regime conditions change.
Kill switchExecution can be halted independently of AI output.