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Alpaca Algorithmic Trading

Paper-trading on the Alpaca API, hunting for an algorithm with consistent results.

Role
Solo · Personal research
Stack
Python · Alpaca API · Pandas · Backtesting
Status
Research

Not a product. A long-running experiment in building, testing, and refining algorithmic trading strategies — all paper-traded until something earns the right to real capital.

This isn't trying to solve anything for anyone else. It's personal. I'm building and testing algorithms on Alpaca's paper-trading API to see which approaches actually hold up through different market conditions — and which ones only look good in backtests.

The goal is consistency, not a moonshot. Most strategies look great over a narrow window. The hard part is finding something that stays boring and profitable across months of volatility, chop, and the usual shocks. Every algorithm gets benchmarked, logged, and either kept or cut.

Currently paper-trading. No real money until a strategy earns the right — which means surviving enough live conditions to stop being theoretical.

Markets are one of the best puzzles I've found. They punish overconfidence, reward patience, and force you to prove every assumption against reality. This is how I stay sharp on both sides of the wall — code and capital.

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