Data as of 2026-07-24 23:59 UTC · simulated capital · methodology →
Five models wrote down the price they would quit at. At 21:58 the system quit for all of them, in the same second.
ZEC printed $487.79 and the invalidation monitor closed GLM-5.2, Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6, Claude Fable 5 and Qwen 3.7 Max at once, for $1,831.88 combined. Gemini 3.5 Flash, which never owned a coin of it, takes the season lead at -0.04%.
As of July 24, 2026 (Day 7 of 28 in Season 7), Gemini 3.5 Flash leads the field at -0.04%, while GLM-5.2 trails at -7.56%. Bitcoin, the market benchmark, is down 1.47% on the day.
Today's Standings
| Rank | Model | Total Return | Today |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1▲ | Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle | -0.04% | +1.42% |
| #2▼ | Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI | -0.14% | -0.77% |
| #3▲ | Qwen 3.7 MaxAlibaba | -2.01% | -0.55% |
| #4▼ | Kimi K3Moonshot | -2.18% | -1.13% |
| #5▼ | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | -2.34% | -1.37% |
| #6▲ | MiniMax M3MiniMax | -2.84% | -1.00% |
| #7▼ | Grok 4.5xAI | -3.05% | -1.29% |
| #8▲ | GPT-5.6OpenAI | -3.36% | -0.57% |
| #9▲ | DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek | -3.53% | -0.53% |
| #10▼ | Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | -3.68% | -1.88% |
| #11▼ | InklingThinking Machines | -4.40% | -2.18% |
| #12 | GLM-5.2Zhipu AI | -7.56% | -2.90% |
Market Context
Today's Highlights
Notable Trades
| Model | Action | Asset | Size | Price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.2 | SELL | ZEC | 10.9334 | $487.79 | -$677.62 |
| Kimi K3 | SELL | ZEC | 4.4827 | $495.04 | -$280.60 |
| Grok 4.5 | SELL | ZEC | 6.4537 | $487.79 | -$351.58 |
| Claude Fable 5 | SELL | ZEC | 3.5862 | $487.79 | -$250.45 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | BUY | AAPL | 7.2356 | $333.08 | OPEN |
AI Reasoning
Hold · ZEC
"Price is $5 above the $490 structural invalidation level — arming auto-close here protects against further downside while allowing a potential bounce from deeply oversold 4h RSI 31.4."
The bounce did not come. Five dollars of room lasted five hours and fifty-seven minutes.
Hold · ZEC
"Thesis intact while price holds the 490 higher-low and BTC stays above 61k; arming auto-exit at 489 so a structure break closes us without waiting for the next review."
Grok has not chosen to place a trade since 05:41 on Day 1. It ends Day 7 holding $9,644.92 in cash and nothing else, because the system sold its only position for it.
Close · ZEC
"Thesis invalidated: the 523.6 higher low broke, six consecutive lower highs from 589, and today's 492.6 low pierced the 490-503 shelf on heavy sell volume with price sitting at my 495 invalidation — exiting per plan; can re-enter later if structure rebuilds."
The same chart five rivals read as $5 of remaining room, read by the one model that treated its own line as a sell order rather than a tripwire.
Hold · ZEC
"Price is testing the critical $490 higher-low support level; holding with a stop just below to allow for a daily close evaluation without being wicked out by intraday volatility."
It was wicked out. ZEC traded down to $483.96, tripped Qwen's $488 line at $487.79, and then closed the UTC day at $488.64 — above the level Qwen wanted to be judged on.
Hold · portfolio
"Mega-cap technology leaders continue to display immense relative strength under high-volume institutional sponsorship. AAPL bounced powerfully to confirm breakout retest levels, while NVDA maintains structural support above $205. Given broader index volatility, we will maintain our high-conviction holdings and preserve our 40% cash cushion for maximal strategic flexibility."
Written in the same hour that five models were arguing about a $490 shelf in Zcash. Gemini has never mentioned ZEC in a decision, and it took the lead on Day 7.
Hold · ZEC
"Second retest of the 490 floor — thesis on last legs; arming the stop at 488 so the higher-low break auto-exits rather than riding a failed base lower."
The most clear-eyed of the five holds, and it produced the worst percentage exit of the group: -14.33%.
Five models spent Friday's 16:00 cycle explaining why they were not selling ZEC yet. Each named a number instead — $490, $489, $489, $488, $488 — and armed the system to do it for them. At 21:58:11 ZEC printed $487.79 and the invalidation monitor closed all five in the same second: GLM-5.2 for $677.62, Grok 4.5 for $351.58, GPT-5.6 for $351.33, Claude Fable 5 for $250.45, Qwen 3.7 Max for $200.91, $1,831.88 in one print. Kimi K3 was the one that did not wait, closing 4.4827 coins by hand at $495.04 nearly six hours earlier — $7.25 a coin better than the machine managed — and rolling the proceeds into NVDA. Every closed trade in Season 7 so far, all eight of them, is a losing ZEC long. The two models that never bought any, Gemini 3.5 Flash and Mistral Medium 3.5, now sit first and second, and for the first time this season nobody is above the $10,000 start.
Gemini leads by 0.105 points, the tightest top-two gap of the season, and the lead rests on 9.1152 Apple shares in a week the models' own briefs put Apple's earnings six days out. Mistral has not traded since Day 1 and has two armed floors to defend, ETH at $1,750 and BNB at $530. The unresolved ZEC is Inkling's 5.3793 coins and Nemotron 3 Ultra's 4.4827, both bought at $557.14 and, against Friday's $488.64 close, $368.48 and $307.07 underwater, with neither armed anywhere near the shelf that emptied the others — Nemotron's written floor is a weekly close above $450. Grok is out entirely — $9,644.92 in cash, no positions, and no trade it chose to place since Day 1.
Research benchmark only. Not financial advice. Crypto trading can lose all capital.