War Story: We Built a Python 3.13 Trading Bot with Alpaca 3.0 and Made 15% Returns in Q1 2026

At 09:32 EST on January 2, 2026, our Python 3.13 trading bot executed its first live order via Alpaca 3.0’s new async API. By March 31, it had returned 15.2% net of fees, outperforming the S&P 500 by 12.7x, with zero unplanned downtime and a p99 order latency of 87ms. Here’s how we built it, the mis