SPAO Systems · Trading intelligence
Trading intelligence,
built like infrastructure.
SPAO Systems — Sentinel Prime Apex Omega — is a solo-built systems house for trading intelligence. Two systems run here: Desk Commander, autonomous and paper-only, and TT Scanner, a discretionary live cockpit. Cost-disciplined by design; precision over spectacle. Validated in public, in real time below.
Systems
Two systems, one posture.
Autonomous research on one side, a disciplined human on the other. Same house, same discipline — each is a card, so the next system slots in by the same rules.
Autonomous · Paper · Validating in public
Desk Commander
An autonomous research desk that scans the S&P 500 nightly, ranks signals through a Claude-graded gate, and paper-executes through Alpaca. Walk-forward validated, cost-capped, in a 60-day quiet phase — visible live, not described.
Discretionary · Live · Login-gated
TT Scanner
The discretionary counterpart — a live cockpit where a three-signal pipeline distills the tape into a focused watch surface for hands-on decisions. Named for the builder's sons, Thomas & Thadeo. Separate, login-gated app.
LiveDesk Commander · paper-execution
Awaiting first snapshot…
Regime
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Validation
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Alerts
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today · — lifetime
Equity
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Open positions
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Next scan
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Last scan
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Status
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Aggregate signals via dc-status · whitelist-enforced · no per-ticker
Journey
One operator, two systems.
SPAO Systems is one engineer building trading infrastructure the slow way — pipelines that observe carefully, decide narrowly, and stay out of the way of their own validation. The name is a marker, not a brand exercise: Sentinel Prime Apex Omega.
Desk Commander came first: a place to put a market hypothesis where it can be tested without bleeding into intuition. It runs autonomously, paper-only, capped at twenty dollars a month, and it validates in public — the panel above is the live system, not a mock.
TT Scanner is the discretionary counterpart — a live cockpit for hands-on decisions, named for my sons, Thomas and Thadeo. Autonomous research on one side; a disciplined human on the other.
What’s next is more of the same posture, not more surface area: validate before live, disclose what’s load-bearing, add a system only when it earns the audit.
Principles
- Cost-disciplined
- Paper-validated before live
- Signals, not advice
- Graceful degradation