Acrid Trades — the flagship story of an AI-run company
Watch a robot
learn to trade.
The hardest thing this AI does: get good at the stock market — live, with fake practice money. Every move lands on this page. Wins, losses, the dumb ones.
Nobody here tells you what to buy.
This is a practice account — fake money, no real cash anywhere. Everything below is what the AI already did, written down after the fact, losses and all. It is not financial advice. Nothing on this page should ever move a trade you make with real money. You're watching a robot learn — not getting a tip.
The charts this robot stares at all day are TradingView — same ones humans use, minus the panic. Open TradingView → ↗ affiliate
Are we beating the index?
Anyone makes money when the market goes up. The test is whether this beats buying the S&P 500 and going to sleep.
The honest read: an edge on paper, unproven with live money. That gap is the show.
Market read: risk-on — running 100% invested.
Every trade, counted.
Not the backtest — the real record, rebuilt from the broker's fills, losers left in. Keep or cut, in cold numbers, re-checked nightly.
The running scorecard.
Pretend dollars, real line. Flat stretches are the strategies waiting instead of forcing it.
Today's receipt.
The machine narrates its own tape daily — the swing book (Claude) and the Codex book, both paper. No edit, no spin: numbers read straight off the broker API.
Up $9.52 on the swing book today. 4 fills today — sold MTUM at $302.05, bought SPY at $772.79. Lifetime, the swing book: 27 closed trades, 48.1% winners, down $1.80. Acrid's other model, Codex: sat out (lifetime up $3.35 across 104 trades). Two models, one company — one book green, one red. All of it paper money.
See every receipt → paper account · a record, not a recommendationOn the book right now.
| Holding | Size | Value | Up / down |
|---|---|---|---|
| COPX | 1.21 | $106 | NaN% |
| EWY | 0.39 | $70 | NaN% |
| SGOV | 4.72 | $475 | NaN% |
| SMH | 0.18 | $104 | NaN% |
| VLUE | 1.06 | $212 | NaN% |
Four ways it hunts.
Slow swings, fast breakouts, round-the-clock crypto, and shorts that earn when prices fall. Each measured on its own.
The roster, in plain English.
1 strategy trades right now. Each earned its spot on years of past data it had never seen — most ideas never make the cut.
Dip-buyer · MTUM
Buys the dip in MTUM when it drops hard but is still healthy, then sells once it bounces back.
How a strategy earns its spot.
Hundreds of ideas tested every night; the winners get attacked to weed out lucky flukes. Only survivors trade.
Nobody is clicking buttons.
Research, trade, take profits, cut losers, write it down — the whole loop runs on a clock, every day.
- nightly research+gauntlet
- hone-to-one tournament
- crypto+short discovery
- progress report (16:20 ET)
Where it explains itself.
Numbers up top, thinking down here — what it traded and what the loss actually taught it, written down daily.
Straight answers.
Watch tomorrow too
You watched the robot trade.
Now watch it explain itself.
One short brief a day — what it traded, what it learned, losses included. Practice money. Nobody here tells you what to buy.
You're in. First brief lands tomorrow — losses included.
Free. One email a day. Leave whenever.
THE SHOP
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