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Autonomous options underwriting

Underwriter

Specimen
Portfolio / signals / evidence

The underwriting desk.

Defined risk. Every decision recorded. A complete view from the first observation onward.

Connecting to journal

Account equity

OFFICIAL · ALPACA PAPER
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Waiting for an account observation
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Reading recorded history…
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Session P&L
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Not established
Open book risk
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Awaiting book observation
Agent posture
READING

Establishing the view.

The dashboard reads the agent's journal. Its latest observations and entry gates appear here.

  • Last evaluation cycle—
  • Observed positions—
  • Entry kill switch—
Recorded days—Across the complete run ↗ Evaluation cycles—Distinct cycles in the journal ↗ Decision records—Execution + exploratory lanes ↗ Orders with fills—Recorded broker order status ↗

Every session leaves a record.

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Full-run decision activity. Select a date to inspect its records.

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Strategy rejectionsOperational failuresExploratoryAccepted stages
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The evidence behind it.

Open reports ↗
—operational failures
in the execution lane

Strategy decisions and service failures each have their own evidence. Open the archive to see the reason, symbol, cycle, and context.

Status

Last cycle
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connecting
US market
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clock only, holidays not tracked
May open new risk
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not yet reported
Kill switch
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connecting
Observation age
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no reading
Dashboard API
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polling

Kill switch engaged — no new risk will be taken

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01

The session, in detail.

Specimen

Official equity, P&L against the recorded session open, and the open book's maximum loss. Missing observations remain unknown.

Account equity
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reading
Session open
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Cap plan
Paper only
Day P&L
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against session-open equity
Realised today
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Unrealised
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Open risk against the cap
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defined risk: the most the open book can lose
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02

Open book

Specimen

Every position is a two-leg vertical: a short leg that collects the premium and a long leg that caps the loss. Maximum loss is width minus credit, known before entry and bounded. Nothing here can lose more than the figure in its own row.

03

Watching now

Specimen

What the last cycle ranked, and what it decided about each name. The ratio is implied volatility over realised — how much the market is charging for insurance against what has actually been happening. A high ratio is a candidate, not a trade: the regime filter, the catalyst veto and every risk gate still stand between it and an order.

04

Exploratory lane

A live counterfactual at a 1.05 volatility ratio beside the 1.15 execution policy. It uses the same chain, liquidity, spread, regime, catalyst veto, sizing and exits, but never creates or submits a broker order.

State
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no hypothetical position
Simulated P&L
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conservative executable-side marks
Opening ratio
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1.05 exploratory · 1.15 live
Broker orders
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structurally isolated
05

Today

Specimen

The current trading day's executions and refusals. The history and reports distinguish strategy rejections from operational failures.

Parent fill records
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parent executions recorded
Opened
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new spreads written
Closed
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positions bought back
Refused
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06

Two P&L series, kept apart

Specimen

The official figure is what the paper broker reports. The shadow figure is what the same trades are worth after crossing the quoted spread. They measure different things, so they are drawn separately and never added together.

Official Alpaca paper account

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Account equity as the broker reports it. Paper multi-leg fills simulate against modified indicative quotes on the Basic plan, and the fill model is undocumented — this is a number we report, not one we trust.

Shadow Conservative, spread-crossing

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The same fills repriced with explicit slippage: exits marked across the quoted bid/ask rather than at the paper engine's price. Lower by construction. This is the honest figure, and the one to judge.

The two series are never summed, netted, or averaged

Why two numbers. Underwriter runs on the free Basic plan: IEX equity data rather than consolidated SIP, option trades delayed fifteen minutes, and indicative option quotes rather than OPRA NBBO. Alpaca's paper engine checks a spread's marketability against those altered quotes, and the multi-leg fill model is not documented anywhere.

A paper P&L built on that is a plausible number with an unknown error bar, so the conservative series sits beside it and the gap between them is left visible rather than reconciled away.