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AlphaOpsBench: Benchmarking End-to-End Alpha Strategy Operationalization in Prediction Markets

Huaiyu Jia·Mingxuan Zhao·Jincheng Gao·Zifan Peng·Wentao Zhang·Siguang Li·Shuo Sun
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Large language models increasingly generate quantitative trading strategies, yet existing benchmarks assume standardized assets, numerical features, or directly compilable strategy representations---assumptions that prediction-market strategies violate, since a coarse idea may leave the traded outcome, causal information source, signal definition, threshold, sizing, order policy, exit, and settlement behavior unspecified. We introduce \textsc{AlphaOpsBench}, which evaluates end-to-end operationalization from source-grounded economic hypotheses to auditable executable programs over 581 source-preserving strategy records and a lifecycle-scale Polymarket dataset with 1.28 million binary markets, 183.6 million cleaned executions, settlement evidence, and limit-order-book history, comparing Direct generation against a Staged design-then-code protocol. In a corrected independent-generation study over 36 controlled tasks and 24 preregistered real strategies, strict end-to-end validity remains rare: Direct and Staged obtain 35/180 and 20/180 canonical passes on the controlled cohort and no confirmed pass on the real cohort, and repeated generations vary substantially in model-owned economic choices. By contrast, 775,725 of 783,655 scheduled historical replays complete, showing that replayability is a far weaker property than source-faithful operationalization. Financial outcomes depend on the declared execution model and available historical evidence, and fee and liquidity experiments show that execution costs alter subsequent trading paths rather than acting only as ex-post deductions. \textsc{AlphaOpsBench} thus separates strategy fidelity, behavioral validity, historical executability, and financial performance in an evidence-aware benchmark for LLM-based quantitative research in prediction markets.

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Huaiyu Jia, Mingxuan Zhao, Jincheng Gao, Zifan Peng, Wentao Zhang, Siguang Li, Shuo Sun. 2026-09-25. AlphaOpsBench: Benchmarking End-to-End Alpha Strategy Operationalization in Prediction Markets. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31390

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