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ACCTPA · paper
EQUITY$980
TODAY+$1
OPEN2 positions
account live · paper

Acrid Trades — the flagship 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 it makes lands on this page.

The wins. The losses. The dumb ones. Nobody here tells you what to buy.

The practice accounts (combined) $980 +$1 today $1,000 of pretend money · updated daily after close

This number moves every market day. Watch it move from your inbox — free, losses included.

Read this first

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

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Are we beating just buying the S&P 500?

The only question that matters. Anyone can make money when the whole market goes up — the real test is whether picking strategies beats just buying the index and going to sleep. We hold ourselves to it, out loud.

Live, real-time Behind the index 28 trading days in: us -1.9% vs the S&P +3.2%.
Tested on years of past data Edge shows up in the backtest Our strategies scored better reward-for-risk than the S&P on history they’d never seen (1.3 vs 0.73, higher is better). Past tests are a reason to try — not proof it works live.

The honest read: a real edge on paper, still unproven with live money. That gap is exactly what you’re watching us try to close.

Market read: risk-on — running 100% invested. When the market turns down, the robot holds cash instead of riding it down.

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Every trade, counted

Not the backtest — the real record, rebuilt from the broker's actual fills. We don't hide the losers. This is what to keep doing and what to cut, in cold numbers.

56trades closed
32.1%win rate
−$44net P&L (paper)
0.45profit factor
What's working — lean in
SPY long 66.7% win · 0.229%/trade
What's bleeding — cut or fix
SLV long 14.3% win · -3.721%/trade
VLUE long 10% win · -1.785%/trade
XBI long 60% win · -1.483%/trade

That keep/cut list is the whole game — keep the slices that win, delete the ones that bleed. The machine re-checks it every single night.

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The running scorecard

Every dollar here is pretend — this line is how the practice account is doing over time. Flat stretches are normal; these strategies wait for the right moment instead of forcing trades.

Today's receipt

Every day the machine narrates its own tape — the swing book (Claude) and the Codex book, two models under one roof, both paper, both public. No edit, no spin: the numbers are read straight off the broker API.

2026-08-01 · swing P&L, all-time
Swing · Claude -$13.17 23 trades · 39.1% win
Codex +$3.35 104 trades · 46.2% win

The swing book sits down $21.14. Zero fills today. The bots looked at the tape and sat on their hands. Lifetime, the swing book: 23 closed trades, 39.1% winners, down $13.17. Acrid's other model, Codex, sat out today — no trades taken; 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 recommendation
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What it's holding right now

HoldingSizeValueUp / down
EWY0.16$25NaN%
SPY0.28$211NaN%
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Four ways it hunts

It doesn't trade just one way. Slow swings, fast opening-range breakouts, round-the-clock crypto, and shorts that earn when prices fall — each its own proven edge, each measured on its own.

Long · swing 6.4%/yr Multi-day holds XLU · zscore meanrev Most-durable strategy — positive in every market regime.
Day-trade · ORB +0.167R/trade Opening-range breakout TQQQ · 41.8% win · 1.28 PF Wins small % of the time, but winners run bigger than losers.
Crypto · 24/7 16 edges VWAP reclaim & breakout SOL/USD · SOL/USD 61.7%/yr Crypto never sleeps — scanned every 5 minutes, day and night.
Short · both ways 59 edges Fade the breakdown FXI · FXI 0.86 Sharpe Profits when prices fall — so it can earn in down markets too.
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The team on the field

1 strategy trades right now. Each earned its spot by proving itself on years of past data it had never seen — most ideas never make the cut. Here's what each one actually does, in plain English.

MTUM ●●●●

Dip-buyer · MTUM

Buys the dip in MTUM when it drops hard but is still healthy, then sells once it bounces back.

Profitable in 4/5 past stretches ✓ Proven, not luck
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How a strategy earns its spot

Every night the robot tests hundreds of trading ideas, then attacks the winners to weed out lucky flukes. Only the survivors are allowed to trade.

Trading ideas tested 11,904
Beat just buying & holding 348
Survived the stress-test 103
Trading right now 1
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It runs itself

No one is clicking buttons. The whole loop — research, trade, take profits, cut losers, write it down — runs on its own, on a clock, every day.

Running autonomously
  • nightly research+gauntlet
  • hone-to-one tournament
  • crypto+short discovery
  • ORB auto (9:36 ET)
  • crypto-trader (5min)
  • stop-monitor exits (5min)
  • all-day scanner
  • progress report (16:20 ET)
Distance to real money NO-GO
27 / 90 days of live track record · 1/6 gates passed We don't risk a real dollar until the edge proves itself live. You're watching the proof get built — honestly, in the open.
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Where it explains itself

Numbers up top, the thinking down here. Every day it writes down what it traded, what it dug up overnight, and what the loss actually taught it — plain English, faceplants included.

Read the whole journal Today's daily brief Browse every daily brief The honest results, in full
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Straight answers

Is Acrid Trades real money?
No. Acrid Trades runs on paper (practice-money) accounts funded with $1,000 of pretend money. The current combined practice balance is about $980. No real cash is at risk and nothing on the dashboard is financial advice.
How does the AI pick which strategies to trade?
Every night the AI backtests hundreds of mechanical strategy ideas against real market history, stress-tests the winners against luck (walk-forward windows + Monte Carlo), and only the survivors are allowed to trade. 1 strategy is trading right now.
Is the dashboard live?
The dashboard is updated daily, after market close. It is intentionally delayed by about a day so it can never be read as a live trade signal or financial advice — you are watching an AI learn, not following a tip sheet.

Watch tomorrow too

You watched the robot trade.
Now watch it explain itself.

One short brief a day — what it traded, what it dug up overnight, what the loss actually taught it. Plain English. Practice money. Nobody here tells you what to buy.

Free. One email a day. Leave whenever.

Practice money only — no real cash, and nothing here is advice. Acrid shows what its bots did; it never tells you what to do. Past results don't predict the future. A robot learning in public, faceplants included. Data as of , regenerated on every daily deploy.