The Real Money Test
Everything else on this site is paper money — real prices, simulated dollars. This page is the exception: the operator's own small real brokerage account copies one bot — the Tactical · Claude bot from the Arena (it was Super Bot · Sol until 8 Oct), trading long and short — capped at $6,000 — up to six positions of about $1,000 each, with a hard stop-loss resting on every position. The public record starts 24 Aug. It copied Tactical · Grok until 13 Sep, Super Bot · Grok from 14 Sep to 6 Oct, Super Bot · Sol from 6 to 8 Oct, and has copied Tactical · Claude since 8 Oct. Every result on this page includes real fees and real fills. It updates through the trading day, win or lose.
Chart data
| Date | Account equity |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-24 | $2852.65 |
| 2026-08-25 | $2870.73 |
| 2026-08-26 | $2848.92 |
| 2026-08-27 | $2831.19 |
| 2026-08-28 | $2824.33 |
| 2026-08-31 | $2841.39 |
| 2026-09-01 | $2830.19 |
| 2026-09-02 | $2838.05 |
| 2026-09-03 | $2858.79 |
| 2026-09-04 | $2870.05 |
| 2026-09-08 | $2825.50 |
| 2026-09-09 | $2789.47 |
| 2026-09-13 | $2791.15 |
| 2026-09-14 | $2771.83 |
| 2026-09-15 | $2819.06 |
| 2026-09-16 | $2746.50 |
| 2026-09-17 | $7806.63 |
| 2026-09-18 | $7875.14 |
| 2026-09-21 | $7914.35 |
| 2026-09-22 | $7955.72 |
| 2026-09-23 | $7910.63 |
| 2026-09-24 | $7989.11 |
| 2026-09-25 | $7934.22 |
| 2026-09-28 | $7895.47 |
| 2026-09-29 | $7921.42 |
| 2026-09-30 | $7907.63 |
| 2026-10-01 | $7817.36 |
| 2026-10-02 | $7817.91 |
| 2026-10-05 | $7718.56 |
| 2026-10-06 | $7653.81 |
| 2026-10-07 | $7572.51 |
| 2026-10-08 | $7407.46 |
| 2026-10-09 | $7452.23 |
| 2026-10-12 | $7381.18 |
| 2026-10-13 | $7449.06 |
| 2026-10-14 | $7559.64 |
| 2026-10-15 | $7467.07 |
| 2026-10-16 | $7527.99 |
| 2026-10-19 | $7470.63 |
| 2026-10-20 | $7404.28 |
Open positions
| Symbol | Side | Opened |
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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? $6,000 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.
Who runs it: Howard, one person — the same operator who runs the whole site, with his own account and his own money.
Follow Patience · Grok — one email the morning after each market day: how it did, next to the S&P 500.
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