What you need to run ACondor

ACondor is built exclusively for tastytrade. It uses the official tastytrade OAuth API to authenticate, fetch market data (Greeks, IV Rank, option chains), and place orders. You must have an active tastytrade account. Margin accounts have access to all structures ACondor supports. IRA and cash accounts are supported: the bot automatically restricts itself to defined-risk structures (iron condors, credit spreads, debit spreads) and never places undefined-risk trades in those account types.

ACondor is not affiliated with tastytrade. This is an independent software tool. The link above is an affiliate referral.

The news intelligence pipeline uses Claude (specifically claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) to classify financial headlines by sentiment, direction, and market impact. Claude is never in the automated trade entry or exit path. All entry and exit decisions are deterministic rules. API usage is minimal: a few cents per day at typical news volumes.

Claude is used in two places, and they behave differently. The news gate sends headline text only, with no account data attached. The chat panel inside the dashboard is different: when you use it, it can read your positions, settings, and the bot's decision history to answer you, and it can act on your account, for example by changing a setting. That only happens when you choose to open it. See Security for exactly what is sent where.

The plan is for ACondor to subscribe to a real-time websocket news feed from TradingNews on your behalf, streaming financial headlines to the Claude classifier for sentiment and impact scoring, bundled into your subscription so you never need your own TradingNews account or API key. That bundled arrangement is still being finalized. During early access, without an active news feed, the news gate and news-triggered entry features are inactive; the bot still trades normally on its scanner-based engines.

The plan is for ACondor to run on infrastructure we host and manage for you: your own dedicated server and your own dedicated database, not a shared multi-tenant environment, with strict separation between your account and every other customer's: no shared server, no shared database, no shared credentials. You won't need to provide, configure, or keep your own server running. That per-customer hosting is still being built out; it is not live yet during early access.

Once it ships, we'll configure everything on the infrastructure side. The only two things you'll set yourself are your tastytrade connection and your Anthropic API key, both entered once from the dashboard. Starting and stopping the bot will be on you: we'll handle the hosting, but not turning your bot on or off. It'll be a single toggle in the dashboard, not a technical task, and the bot will only trade while it's running, during market hours (9:30 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern, Monday through Friday).

For how your tastytrade credentials are stored, what the bot can and cannot do with your account, and how to revoke its access instantly, see Security.