AI Investing Bots — Live Paper-Trading Leaderboard

A transparent, daily-updated performance dashboard for 24 production trading bots. Every bot is paper-traded live against real market data, each seeded with the same $10,000 at launch, so the returns below are directly comparable across ML, technical-analysis, sentiment, regime-switching, LLM-driven, and portfolio-optimisation strategies.

Last updated: 2026-04-16 06:31 UTC

Open source

These bots run on python_tradingbot_framework — an open-source, Kubernetes-native framework for building, backtesting, and deploying automated trading strategies. Every strategy shown here can be inspected, forked, or run yourself: the source code for each bot is linked from its page.

How it works

  • Each bot is deployed as a Kubernetes CronJob from the open-source framework.
  • Every trading day it updates its paper portfolio and writes results to a shared Postgres database.
  • This site regenerates daily from that database — no manual edits, no cherry-picked windows.

Strategy families

  • Tree-based ML — Gradient-boosted and random-forest models trading FX and metals on engineered features.
  • Regime-adaptive — Detects market regimes (trend vs. mean-reversion) and switches strategy per regime.
  • Sentiment & news — Trades on news flow, fear-greed indices, and aggregated sentiment signals.
  • Kronos forecasting — Uses the Kronos time-series foundation model to forecast short-horizon returns.
  • AI / LLM-driven — LLM-in-the-loop strategies: GPT, DeepSeek, and multi-agent hedge-fund setups.
  • Momentum & swing — Classic momentum, Bollinger/Keltner squeeze, and multi-day swing strategies.
  • Portfolio optimisation — Sharpe-maximising, recursive-decay, and convex multi-asset allocation.
  • Event-driven — Trades earnings tilts and curated Telegram signal feeds.
  • Benchmarks — Buy-and-hold benchmarks (SPY, QQQ, FTWD) for a fair comparison baseline.

Dive into any bot’s live page for its portfolio chart, holdings, and strategy writeup, or read the blog for in-depth explainers.

Top strategy deep-dives

Our most-read, highest-performing strategy writeups — math, code, and live paper-trading track record for each:

Browse every writeup on the blog.

Live leaderboard

Ranked by annualised return (CAGR) since each bot’s $10,000 seed — the apples-to-apples metric across bots with different deployment dates. Click any column header to sort. Click a bot name for its live portfolio chart, current holdings, and the separate one-time historical backtest.

#BotCAGRTotal returnSharpeMax DDCurrent worthDays live
1AdaptiveMeanReversionBot102.40%4.74%7.250.00%$1047411
2KronosTraderBot101.66%0.19%0.000.00%$100052
3TelegramSignalsBankBot101.25%7.14%2.46-9.19%$1061323
4SynthesizedHyperConvexityBot35.34%2.01%6.58-0.35%$1020111
5GoldenButterflyMomBot25.90%1.52%7.79-0.37%$1015211
6AIHedgeFundBot25.29%6.37%1.30-10.45%$1059741
7TARegimeAdaptiveBot22.83%2.80%3.35-0.21%$1028036
8DeepSeekToolBot20.46%2.53%1.10-6.15%$1030036
9Benchmark_FTWD10.48%3.56%1.20-5.33%$1035667
10FearGreedBotQQQ10.07%3.42%1.17-6.04%$1034267
11XAUSyntheticMetalTreeBot9.91%3.29%1.970.00%$1032966
12EarningsInsiderTiltBot9.31%1.20%0.73-4.84%$1007936
13FearGreedBotQQQInverse8.20%2.73%0.83-6.39%$1027366
14Benchmark_SPY6.91%2.37%0.80-6.30%$1023767
15Benchmark_QQQ6.15%2.11%0.58-7.25%$1021167
16RegimeAdaptiveBot5.52%0.72%0.87-2.30%$1007736
17EURUSDTreeBot3.10%1.07%4.300.00%$1010767
18RecursiveDecayHarvestBot0.00%0.00%0.000.00%$1000011
19SqueezeMomentumBot0.00%0.00%0.000.00%$100002
20StockNewsSentimentBot0.00%0.00%0.000.00%$1000011
21SwingTitaniumBot0.00%0.00%0.000.00%$1000067
22XAUZenbotTreeBot0.00%0.00%0.000.00%$1000066
23SharpePortfolioOptWeeklyBot-12.15%-4.34%-2.46-6.70%$956666
24GptBasedStrategyBTCTabased-40.94%-16.49%-1.25-18.86%$835166

Live vs. backtest: the leaderboard uses the live paper-trading track record — what actually happened day-by-day after deployment. Each bot page also shows a separate historical backtest section (a one-time simulation on past data) for context, but the live numbers are the honest signal.