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: 2026-04-17 06:30 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
1AdaptiveMeanReversionBot110.96%5.24%7.650.00%$1052412
2TelegramSignalsBankBot104.61%7.52%2.53-9.19%$1065124
3SynthesizedHyperConvexityBot43.42%2.50%7.69-0.35%$1025012
4KronosTraderBot42.54%0.19%11.470.00%$100053
5AIHedgeFundBot27.20%6.88%1.37-10.45%$1064842
6GoldenButterflyMomBot26.91%1.64%8.05-0.37%$1016412
7TARegimeAdaptiveBot24.52%3.05%3.58-0.21%$1030537
8DeepSeekToolBot22.61%2.83%1.20-6.15%$1033137
9EarningsInsiderTiltBot14.20%1.83%1.06-4.84%$1014237
10Benchmark_FTWD11.81%4.02%1.34-5.33%$1040268
11FearGreedBotQQQ11.48%3.91%1.32-6.04%$1039168
12XAUSyntheticMetalTreeBot9.83%3.29%1.950.00%$1032967
13FearGreedBotQQQInverse9.63%3.22%0.95-6.39%$1032267
14RegimeAdaptiveBot7.77%1.03%1.19-2.30%$1010737
15Benchmark_SPY7.59%2.62%0.87-6.30%$1026268
16Benchmark_QQQ7.54%2.60%0.69-7.25%$1026068
17EURUSDTreeBot2.59%0.91%3.38-0.16%$1009168
18RecursiveDecayHarvestBot0.00%0.00%0.000.00%$1000012
19StockNewsSentimentBot0.00%0.00%0.000.00%$1000012
20SwingTitaniumBot0.00%0.00%0.000.00%$1000068
21XAUZenbotTreeBot0.00%0.00%0.000.00%$1000067
22SharpePortfolioOptWeeklyBot-10.78%-3.86%-2.14-6.70%$961467
23SqueezeMomentumBot-11.33%-0.07%-11.22-0.07%$99933
24GptBasedStrategyBTCTabased-40.70%-16.49%-1.24-18.86%$835167

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.