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Do AI Trading Bots Actually Beat the Market? The 2026 Evidence
Day traders are 'vibe coding' AI trading bots and posting huge returns — 87% in a month, 788% on a demo account. Here's the honest version. When frontier models actually traded real money in a 2026 contest, they were profitable in only 6 of 32 runs and lost a third of their capital. The CFTC says AI 'can't predict the future,' the SEC is suing fake-AI-bot schemes, and the economics quietly fail on token costs. What AI genuinely helps with is narrower and real — removing emotion, speeding research, automating discipline — plus an honest directory of the tools worth knowing and how to spot a scam.
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