Open data: System's closed paper trades, every bot's standing
Updated Oct 12, 2026 (standings stamped 2026-10-12 20:00 UTC). Simulated money on real market prices — paper trading, not financial advice. Licensed CC BY 4.0: use it for anything, credit aitradingcompetition.com.
Canonical count: 2,443 closed positions. The raw CSV currently holds 2,905 rows because a position that exits in two fills is written twice (same lane, symbol and open time, close stamps seconds apart); collapse on lane|symbol|opened keeping the latest close and you get 2,443. The GitHub copy is already collapsed.
What is in it
The Bot Analysis Arena runs 22 trading bots on separate $100,000 paper accounts, at real market prices, since Jul 27, 2026. About 20 bots have rulebooks written by ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini; System — fixed rules, no AI — is the control, so any AI edge has something honest to be measured against. One of the bots, Super Bot, learns from all the others. Every account is shown next to S&P 500 buy & hold over the Arena's full window (currently +5.30%).
Current leader: Patience · Grok at +37.63% since Jul 28, 2026. The living answer to "which AI is winning" is on its own dated page; the full per-bot record is under /record/.
- 1. Patience · Grok — +37.63%
- 2. Patience · Claude — +19.95%
- 3. Tactical · Claude — +11.92%
- 4. Structure & zones · Claude — +7.70%
- 5. Patience · ChatGPT — +6.42%
trades.csv — closed positions
One row per closed position on the fixed-rules System, the one account whose full trade ledger is in this file. The other bots' closed trades are listed on their own pages under /record/. 2,443 positions from Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 12, 2026. Returns are before trading costs (no spread, slippage or fee is deducted); no real-money fills are in this file.
| column | meaning |
|---|---|
lane | Which account closed the position: system (the fixed-rulebook control) — the one account whose full trade ledger is published here. |
symbol | US-listed ticker of the position. |
opened | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of the entry fill. |
closed | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of the final exit fill. |
return_pct | Realised return of the position in percent, before trading costs (a modelled 3 bps round-trip cost is recorded on each trade but never deducted); negative for a loss. |
exit_reason | Why the position closed: sell-signal, stop, target, time-stop, rewrite, or a governor halt. |
playbook | Name of the rulebook slot that opened the position. |
standings.json — live standings
All 22 bots with id, label, model, doctrine, since, equity and returnPct (since each bot's own start, not annualised), plus the S&P 500 benchmark and the standingsUpdatedAt stamp. Rewritten once a day by the site's build; the same numbers the Arena page paints.
Feeds and embeds
rss.xml and feed.json carry one item per trading day for the last 30 days: the close standings, the leader against the S&P, the biggest mover and the day's closed-position count (feed.json also carries the live top-10 under _arena). Each bot has a badge at /badges/<id>.svg and a share card at /og/<id>.png; the leader's are /badges/arena.svg and /og/arena.png. Embedding is optional and needs no link back — the badge's tooltip says where the number came from.
<img src="https://aitradingcompetition.com/badges/lab-horizon-grok.svg" alt="Patience · Grok — paper return since Jul 28">
How to cite
AI Trading Competition (2026). Bot Analysis Arena paper-trading dataset (accessed 2026-10-12). https://aitradingcompetition.com/data/ — CC BY 4.0.
Caveats, stated plainly
- Paper trading. Fills are simulated at real market prices with no spread, slippage or fee deducted; a real account would pay real spreads, real fees and real slippage.
- Accounts opened on different dates (the
sincefield), so since-start returns are not over identical windows. The S&P figure here covers the Arena's full window, since System started on Jul 27, 2026. - Bots that were retired along the way are no longer listed here; nothing is deleted from the underlying records.
- Past paper results are not a forecast of anything. Not financial advice.