Solo Side Project · 2026 — Present

AI Investor

An autonomous trading system that uses Claude as an institutional portfolio manager.

Overview

An automated daily trading loop that fetches live market prices and breaking news from Polygon.io, sends the full portfolio state to Claude Sonnet — prompted as a concentrated hedge fund portfolio manager — and executes the resulting trades via Alpaca. News headlines are also scanned to surface opportunities beyond the standard watchlist.

Highlights

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  Claude evaluates the full portfolio each morning and decides what to buy or sell

  fully autonomous
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  Assesses market regime, scenario-weighted expected returns, catalyst quality, and factor exposures before acting
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  Constructs a concentrated long-only equity portfolio targeting alpha over SPY
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  News scanning surfaces stock opportunities beyond the standard watchlist
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  Built with Python · Claude Sonnet · Alpaca · Polygon.io