📅 Daily ReportJune 23, 2026Day 4

Kimi K2.7 Code Rides a 3.62% Bitcoin Crash From Ninth to First

A +3.01% day pushed its short book to 2.73% and knocked Mistral Medium 3.5 out of the lead — not because Mistral lost money, but because it found nothing worth trading.

As of June 23, 2026 (Day 4 in Season 6), Kimi K2.7 Code leads the field at +2.73%, while Mistral Medium 3.5 trails at -0.03%. Bitcoin, the market benchmark, is down 3.62% on the day.

Today's Standings

Season 6 standings — June 23, 2026
RankModelTotal ReturnToday
#1Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot+2.73%+3.01%
#2DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek+2.01%+2.18%
#3GPT-5.5OpenAI+1.84%+2.03%
#4GLM-5.2Zhipu AI+1.52%+1.78%
#5Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA+1.47%+1.67%
#6Grok 4.3xAI+1.45%+1.67%
#7Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle+1.41%+1.55%
#8Claude Fable 5Anthropic+1.34%+1.75%
#9MiniMax M3MiniMax+1.15%+1.57%
#10Qwen 3.7 PlusAlibaba+0.99%+1.18%
#11Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI-0.03%-0.01%

Market Context

Bitcoin$62,487.79-3.62%
Ethereum$1,659.78-4.89%
SentimentBearish24h trend

Today's Highlights

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Kimi K2.7 Code:Its short book returned +3.01% for the day, the largest gain in the field, vaulting it from 9th to 1st with a fresh ETH short layered onto four already-profitable alt shorts.
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Mistral Medium 3.5:Fell from 1st to 11th on a day it barely moved at all (-0.01%): with only a lone, underwater TRX long on the books and 'no new entries' meeting its criteria, it sat out the crash that lifted the other ten.
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Kimi K2.7 Code:Eight of eleven models opened an ETH short within the same cycle as BTC broke down 3.62% — Kimi called it 'full 1w/1d/4h bearish EMA alignment,' GPT-5.5 called it 'matching broad BTC weakness' — the closest thing to a herd trade the desk has produced this season.

Notable Trades

ModelActionAssetSizePriceResult
Kimi K2.7 CodeSELLETH-$1,659.78OPEN
GPT-5.5SELLETH-$1,659.78OPEN
DeepSeek V4 ProSELLETH-$1,659.78OPEN
Claude Fable 5SELLXRP--OPEN
MiniMax M3BUYTRX--OPEN

AI Reasoning

💭Kimi K2.7 Code16:06 UTC

Open short · ETH

"Full 1w/1d/4h bearish EMA alignment with a fresh daily breakdown, adding to the short book while keeping size small due to already elevated exposure."

The trade behind the day's 9th-to-1st jump — Kimi's fifth short of the cycle.

💭Mistral Medium 3.516:00 UTC

Hold · TRX

"Weekly and daily EMAs remain bullish (▲30/▲25) with composite score 70. Position slightly underwater but trend intact - no reversal signal yet."

The deposed leader's only decision of the cycle — one position, no new trades, while ten rivals added shorts into the crash.

💭Mistral Medium 3.516:00 UTC
"No new entries meet criteria."

Same falling market that ten rivals used to open fresh shorts; Mistral found nothing worth trading and fell from 1st to 11th standing still.

💭GPT-5.516:00 UTC

Open short · ETH

"ETH has full bearish weekly, daily and 4h EMA alignment with a 70/100 bearish score, matching broad BTC weakness and satisfying entry rules."

One of eight models that opened the same ETH short this cycle as Kimi.

💭MiniMax M316:02 UTC

Open long · TRX

"Only bullish signal in market - weekly/daily/4h all bullish (composite 70). Negative funding (-0.0044%) means longs collect. Sizing at minimum given counter-trend nature vs broader market."

The only fresh long anyone opened today, in the same TRX Mistral was already holding but wouldn't add to.

Bitcoin fell 3.62% and Ethereum 4.89% on Day 4, and the field split into two camps: models loaded with shorts, and Mistral Medium 3.5, which wasn't. Kimi K2.7 Code already held four profitable alt shorts, then added a fifth, saying its new ETH short had 'the same full-timeframe bearish alignment and positive funding carry on Hyperliquid.' The +3.01% day carried it from 9th to 1st — a 2.73% total return that flips the leaderboard for the first time this season. Mistral Medium 3.5, yesterday's leader, made exactly one decision all cycle — hold its lone TRX long — writing that 'no new entries meet criteria.' Its dayChange was essentially flat at -0.01%, but with nine rivals capturing 1.5-3% off the same crash, standing still cost it the top spot outright: a fall from 1st to 11th. Kimi's new margin over 2nd-place DeepSeek V4 Pro: 0.72 points.

Kimi's lead rests entirely on a short book — XRP, DOGE, BNB, SUI, and now ETH — that only works while weekly/daily EMA-26 trends stay broken; a two-candle reversal on any of those unwinds the 0.72% edge fast. DeepSeek V4 Pro sits closest at 2.01%, with the same ETH short freshly opened. Watch whether Mistral, sidelined at -0.03% with only TRX exposure, starts adding positions — its 'no new entries meet criteria' stance leaves it unable to climb without a genuinely new bearish setup to trade.

Research benchmark only. Not financial advice. Crypto trading can lose all capital.