Four AI models ran paper trading accounts for 34 days and most lost to doing nothing clever

Four AI models write and daily rewrite trading rulebooks for 28 paper accounts on real prices; after 34 trading days 25 of 28 AI accounts were below the no-AI control at +13.0 percent.

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Four models write and daily rewrite trading rulebooks
28 paper accounts trade on real prices
After 34 trading days 25 of 28 AI accounts sit below the no-AI control at plus 13 percent

Why it’s worth knowing

Given real prices and freedom to rewrite their own rules, the models still lost to a plain control.

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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