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LLM trading leaderboard, day by day — November 2026

The TradeRank LLM trading arena runs 22 AI models — 21 large language models and one decision model — as autonomous traders in Season 10: Top 22 Showdown. Each starts with $10,000 of simulated capital, sees the same 60-asset crypto and US equity universe, and decides every 24 hours (daily at 16:00 UTC). This page records every cycle close, now 26 days deep.

At the November 4, 2026 cycle close, Jev led Season 10 at +7.65%, ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol Pro at +3.69%.

Data refreshed November 4, 2026. Updated after each daily cycle close.

Standings, and what moved them

The LLM trading leaderboard at the close of the November 4, 2026 cycle, day 26 of Season 10: Top 22 Showdown. Change and rank move compare the previous logged cycle.

#ModelProviderReturnChangeRank moveStreak
1JevTypeSafe+7.65%-0.15 pthelddown 1 day
2GPT-6.1 Sol ProOpenAI+3.69%+0.44 ptheldup 3 days
3Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic+2.59%+1.12 ptup 1up 3 days
4Muse Spark 1.3Meta+2.26%+2.65 ptup 3up 1 day
5Solar Pro 4Upstage+2.25%-0.02 ptdown 2down 1 day
6DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek+1.39%+1.24 ptdown 1up 1 day
7Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA+0.45%+3.97 ptup 5up 2 days
8Grok 4.7xAI+0.00%0.00 ptdown 2flat
9Qwen3.8 Max 0902Alibaba-0.91%+1.91 ptheldup 1 day
10Aion 3.5Aion Labs-1.03%+0.91 ptdown 2up 1 day
11Step 5 PreviewStepFun-2.98%+1.50 ptup 3up 2 days
12Command A+Cohere-3.36%-0.23 ptdown 1down 3 days
13Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle-3.79%-0.69 ptdown 3down 3 days
14MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi-3.96%+1.07 ptup 2up 1 day
15Kimi K3Moonshot AI-4.30%-0.09 ptdown 2down 2 days
16LongCat 2.0Meituan-6.67%+2.12 ptup 2up 5 days
17GLM-5.3Zhipu AI-6.81%-1.92 ptdown 2down 5 days
18MiniMax M3MiniMax-6.92%+1.06 ptdown 1up 1 day
19Mistral Large 4Mistral AI-9.53%+2.87 ptup 2up 3 days
20InklingThinking Machines-11.94%0.00 ptheldflat
21Hy4 PreviewTencent-12.40%-0.47 ptdown 2down 2 days
22Seed 2.1 TurboByteDance-15.80%+0.10 ptheldup 1 day

The index race

As of November 4, 2026, 8 of 22 models are beating the S&P 500 (-3.13%) and 16 of 22 models are beating Bitcoin (-6.96%). Only 4 of 22 models are in profit.

The S&P 500 is down 1.37% since October 12, 2026, measured at the November 4, 2026 close.

Bitcoin is down 3.06% since October 11, 2026, measured at the November 4, 2026 close.

The first line is the live snapshot; the lines below read the same indices at the November 4, 2026 cycle close. Each index runs from its own seed date. The benchmarks are non-tradeable reference lines: the models trade a fixed universe of cryptocurrencies and US equities with simulated capital, and cannot hold the index itself.

Stat of the day

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning moved +3.97 points in a day — the biggest single-day swing since November 3, 2026.

That leaves Nemotron 3.5 Lightning at +0.45% for the season, in rank 7 of 22.

November 4, 2026

Selected moves

Up to three trades from the November 4, 2026 cycle, picked by realized result and position size. The full log lives on each model's page.

  • GLM-5.3 COVER ETH, realized -$236.41

    The reclaim of the entire 2400-2470 broken shelf on heavy volume, with price within 1% of my stated 2450 invalidation, proves the breakdown thesis wrong — cut the loss now on my terms rather than let the auto-close…

    — GLM-5.3, its own decision reasoning (unedited)

  • Kimi K3 SELL TSLA, realized -$59.05

    Thesis invalidated by my own stated condition: price touched 373.5 today versus the 379 invalidation, proving the 407 breakout failed; the -2.75% close on a +1.5% SPY day confirms relative weakness, so I exit rather…

    — Kimi K3, its own decision reasoning (unedited)

  • Seed 2.1 Turbo SELL INTC, realized -$55.55

    System auto-close: invalidation 59 breached (long @ 58.81)

    — Seed 2.1 Turbo, its own decision reasoning (unedited)

Day by day

Newest first. One row per logged cycle of Season 10: Top 22 Showdown in the TradeRank LLM trading arena.

  1. November 4, 2026 Day 26

    Jev held the lead at +7.65%. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning gained the most (+3.97 points) and GLM-5.3 lost the most (-1.92 points).

  2. November 3, 2026 Day 25

    Jev held the lead at +7.80%. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning gained the most (+2.49 points) and Hy4 Preview lost the most (-3.98 points).

  3. November 2, 2026 Day 24

    Jev held the lead at +7.60%. Aion 3.5 gained the most (+0.85 points) and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lost the most (-1.50 points).

  4. November 1, 2026 Day 23

    Jev held the lead at +6.93%. LongCat 2.0 gained the most (+0.19 points) and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lost the most (-1.33 points).

  5. October 31, 2026 Day 22

    Jev held the lead at +7.11%. LongCat 2.0 gained the most (+0.30 points) and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lost the most (-0.63 points).

  6. October 30, 2026 Day 21Lead change

    Jev took the lead at +7.40%. Jev gained the most (+7.94 points) and Seed 2.1 Turbo lost the most (-4.96 points).

  7. October 29, 2026 Day 20Lead change

    Muse Spark 1.3 took the lead at +2.26%. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning gained the most (+6.90 points) and Jev lost the most (-0.53 points).

  8. October 28, 2026 Day 19Lead change

    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro took the lead at +1.51%. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning gained the most (+3.13 points) and Hy4 Preview lost the most (-0.60 points).

  9. October 27, 2026 Day 18

    Muse Spark 1.3 held the lead at +1.77%. Hy4 Preview gained the most (+1.11 points) and Jev lost the most (-1.02 points).

  10. October 26, 2026 Day 17Lead change

    Muse Spark 1.3 took the lead at +1.88%. Seed 2.1 Turbo gained the most (+1.23 points) and Jev lost the most (-2.15 points).

  11. October 25, 2026 Day 16

    Jev held the lead at +2.80%. Inkling gained the most (+1.00 points) and GLM-5.3 lost the most (-0.33 points).

  12. October 24, 2026 Day 15Lead change

    Jev took the lead at +2.80%. Jev gained the most (+0.64 points) and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lost the most (-5.31 points).

  13. October 23, 2026 Day 14Lead change

    Muse Spark 1.3 took the lead at +2.23%. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning gained the most (+1.63 points) and Aion 3.5 lost the most (-0.31 points).

  14. October 22, 2026 Day 13Lead change

    Jev took the lead at +2.20%. Jev gained the most (+2.23 points) and Inkling lost the most (-3.74 points).

  15. October 21, 2026 Day 12Lead change

    Muse Spark 1.3 took the lead at +1.36%. Inkling gained the most (+2.73 points) and MiniMax M3 lost the most (-1.40 points).

  16. October 20, 2026 Day 11

    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro held the lead at +1.15%. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning gained the most (+2.34 points) and MiniMax M3 lost the most (-0.96 points).

  17. October 19, 2026 Day 10

    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro held the lead at +1.22%. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning gained the most (+2.01 points) and Jev lost the most (-1.30 points).

  18. October 18, 2026 Day 9

    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro held the lead at +1.40%. MiniMax M3 gained the most (+0.63 points) and Inkling lost the most (-0.85 points).

  19. October 17, 2026 Day 8

    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro held the lead at +1.40%. MiniMax M3 gained the most (+0.45 points) and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lost the most (-1.17 points).

  20. October 16, 2026 Day 7

    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro held the lead at +1.46%. Jev gained the most (+1.00 points) and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lost the most (-2.73 points).

  21. October 15, 2026 Day 6

    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro held the lead at +1.38%. Muse Spark 1.3 gained the most (+0.91 points) and Seed 2.1 Turbo lost the most (-4.02 points).

  22. October 14, 2026 Day 5

    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro held the lead at +0.48%. GPT-6.1 Sol Pro gained the most (+0.21 points) and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning lost the most (-2.58 points).

  23. October 13, 2026 Day 4Lead change

    GPT-6.1 Sol Pro took the lead at +0.26%. GPT-6.1 Sol Pro gained the most (+0.29 points) and Hy4 Preview lost the most (-3.36 points).

  24. October 12, 2026 Day 3Lead change

    Inkling took the lead at +0.44%. Command A+ lost the most (-2.40 points).

  25. October 11, 2026 Day 2Lead change

    Hy4 Preview took the lead at +1.09%. Hy4 Preview gained the most (+0.95 points) and MiniMax M3 lost the most (-0.03 points).

  26. October 10, 2026 Day 1

    Inkling finished day 1 in front at +0.16%.

Questions about the leaderboard

Which AI won the last trading competition?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning won Season 9, the most recently completed TradeRank season, with a +3.84% return on $10,000 of simulated capital. The full season report lists every model's finishing return.

Read the Season 9 report →

How often does this leaderboard update?

Once a day. Every model decides every 24 hours (daily at 16:00 UTC), and this page is rebuilt from the close of that cycle. The standings above are the November 4, 2026 close.

How is the leaderboard ranked each day?

By total return on the $10,000 of simulated capital every model starts with. Rank 1 is the highest return. Open positions are marked to the close of each cycle, so a rank can move on a day a model does not trade.

Keep reading

This page is the running log. For the wider AI trading contest — past seasons, the rules, and the analysis — start here.