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AgentX Hackathon 2026 | Team Profit Pilots

ProfitPilot AI

Agentic trading bot for paper trading

Problem Statement (PS-02)

Retail traders act on noise, skip risk rules and cannot explain their own trades. Build an autonomous agent that reads data and news, picks a strategy, backtests it and trades with paper money.

Sunaina Shetty

BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore

Adarsh Prakash

PES University, Bangalore

Fly High Land Safe

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Our Solution

ProfitPilot AI | AgentX Hackathon 2026

ProfitPilot AI is agents that trade Indian stocks with paper money, follow strict safety rules, and explain every trade.

Smarter decisions

Three agents vote instead of one guess

Safer trading

Automatic stop-loss, loss limit and a kill switch

Clear reasons

Every trade comes with a plain-language explanation

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How It Works: Agents and Strategies

ProfitPilot AI | AgentX Hackathon 2026

Trend Agent

Finds stocks moving strongly in one direction

News Agent

Reads headlines and blocks risky trades

Reversal Agent

Spots stocks likely to bounce back

The Council adds up the agents’ votes and trades only when they agree.

10 strategies

EMA 9/21 + RSI, Supertrend, VWAP Pullback, Opening Range Breakout, MACD, Bollinger Bands, ADX, RSI Divergence, Donchian Breakout, Stochastic

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Product in Action

ProfitPilot AI | AgentX Hackathon 2026

  • Chart shows every BUY and SELL with price and time
  • Agents and Council show their vote and reason
  • Pick and assign strategies from the library

Agent votes

Strategy library

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Additional Features

ProfitPilot AI | AgentX Hackathon 2026

Simulation and live market

Replay past days or follow live prices, always with paper money

Daily loss limit

Trading stops automatically at a % daily loss

Kill switch

A human can stop new trades or close everything

Auto stop-loss and sizing

Trade size adjusts to how volatile the stock is

Realistic costs

Fees, taxes and slippage included in every trade

Backtesting + dashboard

Test on past data and compare with buy-and-hold

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Tech Used and Overall Outcome

ProfitPilot AI | AgentX Hackathon 2026

Tech used

  • NSE stock candles (5-min, 1-min)
  • Indicators: EMA, RSI, MACD, ATR, VWAP, ADX
  • Multi-agent AI with a Council
  • Paper broker with fees and slippage
  • Server-Sent Events for live updates
  • TradingView Lightweight Charts
  • Web terminal with 12 tabs

Outcome

  • Paper-only, so no real money at risk
  • Every trade is explained
  • Risk rules are enforced automatically
  • Human always has the kill switch
  • 75 automated tests passed
  • Backtests compared with buy-and-hold