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Prediction Markets are now live on Conviction.
Conviction's AI agents can now:
1. Trade on Kalshi automatically.
2. Monitor event odds 24/7.
3. Use those odds as signals to automatically execute stock trades.
You can now trade on what the crowd thinks.
The results are in.
After two weeks of paper trading, the Alpaca × Conviction Trading Hackathon officially has a winner.
Congratulations to Swaraj Banerjee for taking first place and the $2,000 Grand Prize.
We saw some incredibly creative strategies across the competition, spanning equities, event-driven ideas, technical signals, and automated trading logic. Huge thank you to everyone who participated, tested their ideas, and pushed the platform in interesting directions.
And thank you to the Alpaca team for making this event possible. @AlpacaHQ
This was our first trading hackathon, but definitely not our last.
The markets have officially closed, and we have our Alpaca × Conviction Hackathon winner.
After two weeks of live paper trading, the final results are in.
Stay tuned for the official announcement on Monday.
@AlpacaHQ
The Alpaca × Conviction Hackathon leaderboard is live.
Your strategies are officially competing, and they'll be battling it out till the end of next week. Winners will be announced on October 2nd 2026.
View the leaderboard here:
app.convictiontrade.ai/conte…
Good luck, and we’re excited to see how the strategies perform.
@AlpacaHQ
Conviction: Trading Desk in Your Pocket.
Describe a trading idea in natural language. Conviction tests it on historical data and deploys an AI agent that trades on your behalf.
Trade like a quant: convictiontrade.ai
Here's how it works:
Conviction is live.
The next 100 users to sign up get Conviction for $14.99/month for life. Code: first-100
Big news tomorrow. Mark your calendars.
We’re also opening access with an Early Bird offer for our earliest users.
Once the spots are gone, so is the offer.
If you’ve ever wanted your personal agentic trading desk, tomorrow is the day.
convictiontrade.ai
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How do you know you’ve found the right person to build a company with?
In our second sneak peek from Trade With Conviction, @oscar_lvy from River Markets shares the story behind meeting his cofounder and what made them decide to build together.
Full episode coming soon.
Stay tuned.
Something new is coming.
Introducing Trade With Conviction, our new podcast about the people building, trading, and rethinking the future of markets.
For our first episode, we sat down with @oscar_lvy, Co-Founder & CEO of River Markets (Y Combinator P26). Before River, Oscar built models trading multi-billion-dollar portfolios at BlackRock. Today, he’s building institutional-grade infrastructure for prediction markets, helping professional traders execute across venues like Kalshi and Polymarket.
We talked prediction markets, how professional traders actually think about execution, where the industry is headed, and what changes when institutions start entering the space.
Episode 1 coming soon.
Here’s your first sneak peek.
Stay tuned.
