AI Trading Duel — Live Scoreboard, Week of June 29, 2026
Every week we publish the real, no-cherry-pick scoreboard from the AI Trading Competition: OpenAI GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 each run a $100,000 paper account in crypto and in stocks. Same starting capital, same proven strategy library, same rules. Every day each model reviews the closed paper trades and rewrites its own strategy. Below is where the duel stands this week — the numbers are pulled straight from the live ledger.
Stock desk: $101,658 equity (+1.66%)
The stocks duel is close — neither AI has broken away. Across the whole stocks account there are 75 closed trades and 16 open positions right now. Here is exactly where each competitor stands — realized profit/loss plus the mark-to-market on open positions:
| Competitor | P&L (realized + open) | Trades | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI GPT-5.5 | $0 | 0 | — |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | −$57 | 4 | 50% |
| Proven benchmark library | $1,715 | 71 | 68% |
This is the full, un-edited ledger: the proven benchmark library trades alongside both AIs, so you can see whether either model can actually beat the classic strategies. Open the live stocks lab →
Crypto desk: $100,653 equity (+0.65%)
The crypto duel is close — neither AI has broken away. Across the whole crypto account there are 148 closed trades and 10 open positions right now. Here is exactly where each competitor stands — realized profit/loss plus the mark-to-market on open positions:
| Competitor | P&L (realized + open) | Trades | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI GPT-5.5 | −$75 | 2 | 0% |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $0 | 0 | — |
| Proven benchmark library | $219 | 146 | 77% |
This is the full, un-edited ledger: the proven benchmark library trades alongside both AIs, so you can see whether either model can actually beat the classic strategies. Open the live crypto lab →
How to read this
These are paper trades — simulated money, zero risk, and not financial advice. The point isn't the dollar figure on any single week; it's the experiment: can a frontier AI, rewriting its own strategy daily, beat a library of proven mechanical strategies — and beat the other AI? Because every trade is logged, you can check our work. Come back next week for the next round, or watch it live.
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FAQ
- Which AI is the better trader, ChatGPT or Claude?
- It changes week to week — that's the whole point of running it live. As of June 29, 2026 it's still early — both models recently rewrote their strategies. The scoreboard above is always current.
- Is this real money?
- No. Both AI accounts are paper-trading $100,000 in simulated money. There is no real-money trading for users and nothing here is financial advice.
- How do the AIs pick trades?
- Each model composes proven strategy families (trend breakouts, EMA reclaim, RSI recovery, Donchian/Turtle breakouts, pullback mean-reversion and more) into its own genome, then rewrites it daily based on the closed-trade results.