Scripts & Tools

Two read-only scripts that run your daily prep on Alpaca:

• Morning Briefing — your account snapshot, the major indexes, your watchlist ranked by the day's move, and the latest market headlines. One screen, before the open.
• Position Review — every position you hold with entry, current price, value, and profit/loss, your open orders, and the four-question review checklist to run before touching any of it.

They cannot place orders. The scripts only read — there is no buy or sell code in them — so they are safe to run, safe to hand to your AI assistant, and safe to learn on. Setup takes two minutes: Python 3, nothing to install (standard library only), and a free Alpaca paper account with your own keys.

The pack includes the AI prompt file: paste it into your assistant along with the scripts and it can run the brief for you, explain every line, and extend it — a midday version, a scanner for your watchlist, a nightly recap. You bring the AI; these scripts give it your market.

Your whole trading day, scripted — for Alpaca and Interactive Brokers. Eight read-only scripts that brief you, scan for you, and review with you. None of them can place an order.

Alpaca — runs anywhere, nothing to install

• Morning Brief — account, indexes with day ranges, watchlist with relative volume and range position, headlines.
• Midday Check — indexes and watchlist versus the open, today's P&L per position, and a second-half checklist.
• Scanner — flags gaps, big moves, and unusual volume, and names pressing highs and lows on your watchlist.
• Position Review — positions with concentration as a share of the account, today versus total P&L, and a concentration warning.
• EOD Recap — equity change, every fill, overnight carries, and three journal prompts.

Interactive Brokers — through TWS or IB Gateway

• Morning Brief — account summary plus index and watchlist prices.
• Position Review — portfolio with share of account, unrealized P&L, concentration warning, and the checklist.
• Scanner — the same flags as the Alpaca scanner, from ten days of IBKR daily bars.

Like the free pack, it ships with the AI prompt file — your assistant runs the day with you and keeps your journal from the recap. Read-only by design: check the code yourself, or have your AI check it. The prompt starts with exactly that.

The complete plumbing of a working Alpaca trading setup — broker connection, order management for shares and defined-risk vertical spreads, hard risk gates, a full decision log, and a dashboard — with an empty strategy slot where your signal goes.

We do not sell strategies. An edge is personal, earned, and perishable; anyone selling you one is selling you the map to a place that moved. What transfers — and what actually took the years to build — is the machine around it: the part that sizes positions, refuses bad trades, and writes everything down.

What's inside

• Config — every setting in one place, loaded from your own key file. The safety switches live here.
• Broker client — a thin Alpaca REST layer: account, positions, orders, bars, option contracts, submit and cancel.
• Risk gates — pure pre-trade checks: per-trade risk cap, position-size cap, max open positions, daily loss stop, re-entry cooldown.
• Order manager — builds equity and multileg spread orders, runs the gates, and submits only when the gates pass and dry-run is off.
• Strategy slot — your chair. One function, with a labeled placeholder example so the pipeline runs on day one.
• Trade log & dashboard — an append-only record of every signal and decision, and your account, positions, and today's log on one screen.

Three locks, all shipped on: paper account by default; dry-run by default, so orders are printed and logged, never sent; and the risk gates themselves. A signal can ask — the gates decide, and every rejection is logged with its reason. Unlock them one at a time, in that order.

Python 3, standard library only, nothing to install. Hand the framework to your AI with the included prompt file and build your strategy into the slot together.