We paper-trade the viral AI trading bots so you don't have to.
Every “I built a trading bot with Claude / ChatGPT / Grok” post gets rebuilt from its own description, run on real market data, and logged trade by trade. No screenshots, just receipts.
5viral bots tracked
1 / 5beat buy-and-hold of their own market (backtest)
2019-01-02backtest start · $10,000 each
2026-10-17data as of (daily bars)
Leaderboard Backtest Forward paper run starts 2026-10-16
Backtest numbers are hypothetical: simulated on historical daily data with next-day-open fills and slippage. They are not live results. The forward paper run uses the same rules on new data from 2026-10-16 onward.
| # | Bot | Market | Backtest return | CAGR | Max drawdown | Sharpe | Trades | Win rate | Buy & hold | Forward paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The 'Claude Built Her a Trading Bot' Multi-Asset Bot viral source ↗ · free prompt Daily-bar approximation (source used 15m/1h bars) Intraday re-run 2026-07-27 → 2026-10-17: -1.7% (SPY +3.5%) Intraday re-run 2024-10-28 → 2026-10-17: -22.0% (SPY +34.6%) see intraday runs | SPY, QQQ, BTC-USD, GLD | +370.7% | +22.0% | -13.8% | 1.39 | 230 | 37% | SPY +244.4% | Day 1 0 trades |
| 2 | The Reddit Dip-Ladder Crypto Bot viral source ↗ · free prompt | BTC-USD, ETH-USD | +266.2% | +18.1% | -44.0% | 0.73 | 309 | 100% | BTC-USD +1970.8% | Day 1 0 trades |
| 3 | The 14-Minute Claude Bot (20/50 MA Crossover) viral source ↗ · free prompt | SPY (S&P 500 ETF) | +92.1% | +8.8% | -28.2% | 0.74 | 16 | 56.2% | SPY +244.4% | Day 1 0 trades |
| 4 | The 34-Minute Regime Bot (HMM Bull/Bear/Sideways) viral source ↗ · free prompt | SPY | +83.8% | +8.1% | -11.0% | 0.84 | 64 | 67.2% | SPY +244.4% | Day 1 0 trades |
| 5 | The 'Beat the Market' MA Mean-Reversion Bot viral source ↗ · free prompt | BTC-USD | +83.0% | +8.1% | -47.9% | 0.4 | 44 | 72.7% | BTC-USD +1970.8% | Day 1 0 trades |
Benchmarks over the same window (backtest, buy & hold): SPY +244.4% (max drawdown -33.7%), BTC-USD +1970.8% (max drawdown -76.6%).
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How it works
- Find the viral “AI built my trading bot” posts on X and Reddit.
- Rebuild the strategy exactly as described. Where the post is vague, we say so and publish our assumptions.
- Run it on free daily data: a backtest since 2019-01-02, plus a forward paper run that only sees new data. Where the post used intraday candles, we also re-run it on real intraday bars for as far back as free data goes, and label the window.
- Publish the full trade log, the drawdowns, and the free prompt so you can rebuild it yourself.