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Options alpha, with receipts.

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Execution and validation proof

Broker verified

3 FILLS

AAPL260911C00330000, XLF260911C00059000, AMZN260911C00260000

Exploratory v0 paper-only fills · maximum combined premium risk $825.0 · execution proof, not v1 performance.

Untouched 2024–2026 holdout

55.9%

127 independently scored signals · profit factor 1.39.

Average signed two-session underlying move 0.218%.

Frozen challenger

REVERSAL V1

±0.5% daily and ±3.0% five-session exhaustion · volatility ≤ 25.0%.

Directional signal proxy, not option P&L. Costs and paper performance are reported separately.

Latest frozen-rule check

WAIT

3 underlyings checked · 0 qualified.

Captured 2026-09-04T03:20:41Z; no order was requested.

Judge overview

4:54 judge narrative: problem, working product, architecture, AI boundaries, execution proof, holdout evidence, business model, originality, and roadmap.

Ten-slide judge deck

Inspect the complete proof path

Working demo, six-advisor architecture, deterministic authority, honest evidence, buyer, market, revenue model, moat, and roadmap.

Open presentation

Editable PowerPoint

Business case

Starting user

RIA TEAMS

Research teams, family offices, and sophisticated investors that need AI-scale synthesis without surrendering policy control.

Commercial path

SAAS + API

Team subscriptions, enterprise private deployment, and usage-based research and evidence primitives.

Illustrative U.S. software TAM: about USD 275M/year using 22,932 advisers and an explicit USD 12k annual-contract assumption.

Historical v0 safety-control replay

Recorded 2026-08-28T06:42:48.341497+00:00

WAIT

Advisor consensus chose WAIT: At least one independent advisor issued a hard veto.

Consensus WAIT
Confidence 1
Operational safety VETO

Independent advisors

Technical Regime

CALL

Confidence 0.8787100103199176

Fast and slow momentum agree in an acceptable volatility regime.

Evidence
  • market:fast_return_pct
  • market:slow_return_pct
  • market:realized_volatility_pct
Contrary evidence
  • Momentum can reverse before a daily-bar regime filter reacts.
Invalidation
  • Fast and slow returns no longer agree in direction.
  • Realized volatility rises above 45 percent.

News Catalyst

WAIT

Confidence 0.55

Recent timestamped catalysts were evaluated without overriding market evidence.

Evidence
  • news:alpaca:61473424
Contrary evidence
  • Headline sentiment may not capture priced-in expectations.
Invalidation
  • A material contradictory catalyst is published.

Options Liquidity

CALL

Confidence 0.8896800825593397

The selected contract is directionally consistent and inside the spread and loss budget.

Evidence
  • option:symbol
  • option:limit_price
  • option:spread_pct
Contrary evidence
  • Indicative option quotes may differ from executable OPRA quotes.
Invalidation
  • Spread widens above 8 percent.
  • One-contract premium exceeds USD 500.

Financials Forensic Auditor

CALL

Confidence 0.78

Fund cost, scale, diversification, and concentration pass the structural audit.

Evidence
  • fund:expense_ratio_pct
  • fund:annual_turnover_pct
  • fund:total_assets_usd
  • fund:holdings_count
  • fund:top_10_weight_pct
  • fund:largest_holding_weight_pct
  • fund:largest_sector_weight_pct
  • fund:cash_weight_pct
Contrary evidence
  • ETF structure does not determine short-horizon direction.
Invalidation
  • Top-ten concentration rises above 55 percent.
  • Fund assets fall below USD 500 million.
  • Expense ratio rises above 0.75 percent.

Value Framework

ABSTAIN

Confidence 0

No normalized valuation evidence was supplied.

Evidence
  • None recorded
Contrary evidence
  • None recorded
Invalidation
  • None recorded

Risk Critic

WAIT

Confidence 1

Operational risk conditions forbid a new order.

Evidence
  • ops:market_open
  • ops:quote_age_seconds
  • ops:daily_trade_count
  • ops:duplicate_signal
  • ops:open_order_count
  • ops:minutes_since_last_trade
Contrary evidence
  • Regular market session is closed.
  • Option quote is stale.
Invalidation
  • Every operational safety reason is cleared.

Consensus and deterministic safety

Consensus

At least one independent advisor issued a hard veto.

Hard vetoes

  • risk_critic: Operational risk conditions forbid a new order.

Operational safety

Execution forbidden

  • Regular market session is closed.
  • Option quote is stale.

Competition paper account

Paper P&L

$-13.09

-0.01309% return from the required $100,000 starting balance.

Account baseline

READY

Options level 3 · 3 positions · 3 filled orders

No baseline issues recorded.

Evidence catalog

IDCategoryValueSourceAs of
market:fast_return_pct technical 0.6841 % alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
market:slow_return_pct technical 1.1224 % alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
market:realized_volatility_pct technical 10.4883 % annualized alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
option:symbol options SPY260904C00772000 alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
option:limit_price options 4.84 USD alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
option:spread_pct options 0.2064 % alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
option:signal_confidence options 0.8787 0-1 ipulse 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
ops:market_open operations False alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
ops:quote_age_seconds operations 38,568.4091 seconds ipulse 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
ops:daily_trade_count operations 0 count alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
ops:duplicate_signal operations False ipulse 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
ops:open_order_count operations 0 count alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
ops:minutes_since_last_trade operations None minutes alpaca 2026-08-28T06:42:48.340566+00:00
news:alpaca:61473424 news {"headline": "Nvidia's Unusual Move Answers AI Trade\u2019s Key Question; $40 Trillion US Debt Bomb Ticks; Key Fed Speech Awaited", "sentiment_score": 0.0} alpaca_news:benzinga 2026-08-27T17:00:02+00:00
fund:expense_ratio_pct financials 0.095 % ipulse-bigquery:fundsnap_422fc623-cf39-5aa4-a933-e09381a5da7e 2026-08-26
fund:annual_turnover_pct financials 2 % ipulse-bigquery:fundsnap_422fc623-cf39-5aa4-a933-e09381a5da7e 2026-08-26
fund:total_assets_usd financials 807,460,814,119 USD ipulse-bigquery:fundsnap_422fc623-cf39-5aa4-a933-e09381a5da7e 2026-08-26
fund:holdings_count financials 50 count ipulse-bigquery:fundsnap_422fc623-cf39-5aa4-a933-e09381a5da7e 2026-08-26
fund:top_10_weight_pct financials 37.0293 % ipulse-bigquery:fundsnap_422fc623-cf39-5aa4-a933-e09381a5da7e 2026-08-26
fund:largest_holding_weight_pct financials 7.6625 % ipulse-bigquery:fundsnap_422fc623-cf39-5aa4-a933-e09381a5da7e 2026-08-26
fund:largest_sector_weight_pct financials 37.5002 % ipulse-bigquery:fundsnap_422fc623-cf39-5aa4-a933-e09381a5da7e 2026-08-26
fund:cash_weight_pct financials 0.1036 % ipulse-bigquery:fundsnap_422fc623-cf39-5aa4-a933-e09381a5da7e 2026-08-26