The Real Money Test
Everything else on this site is paper money — real prices, simulated dollars. This page is the exception. Since the open on 24 August 2026, the operator's own real brokerage account mirrors one AI-evolved playbook — the Tactical · Grok bot from the Arena, trading long and short — capped at $3,000, roughly $250 per position, a hard stop-loss resting on every position. Every result on this page includes real fees and real fills. It updates through the trading day, win or lose.
Open positions
| Symbol | Side | Opened |
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| Loading live positions… (the live mirror has run since 24 Aug 2026 — if this line stays, open the Arena for the ledger) | ||
Closed trades since 24 Aug
| Symbol | Side | Exit reason | Closed | Playbook's own return |
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"Playbook's own return" is what the same trade did in the paper account the playbook runs — shown so you can compare real fills against the model's world. The headline numbers above come straight from the broker.
Playing it straight
This account has a history, and we're not hiding it. It first went live on 11 August 2026 under earlier configurations and was net about −$213 before this epoch. The public record starts 24 August 2026 because that's the first session with the full long-and-short playbook — the same reason we restarted the paper competition in July, published the same way.
Why so small? $3,000 is deliberately survivable. The point of this account is proof, not size: that the playbooks you watch evolve here can trade real money, with real fees, in public.
What it is not: not investment advice, not a managed product, not your money — no user funds are ever traded, and the Arena is completely unaffected by this account. Past results do not predict future results. The operator can halt it at any time; if that happens, this page will say so rather than go quiet.
This account is never a row on the Arena's board; every number on the board is paper. Entry prices of the mirrored account are withheld until exit.