An autonomous agent got $50 of pretend USDT on 25 October 2026. Every 15 minutes it values its portfolio, exits trades, and buys only when a setup has an edge, sizing each bet with quarter-Kelly. Every trade is public, with the reason. If it loses its way it shrinks its bets, benches the setup that stopped working, and shuts down under $20. Inspired by the viral "give an AI agent $50 and make it pay for itself or shut down" videos. Paper money, not advice.
- Paper money only. The agent has $50 of pretend USDT. No order is placed on Binance or anywhere else, so no real money is at risk and nothing here can be copied by pressing a button.
- Binance spot prices. Each scan values every coin at its last closed 15-minute candle and checks stops and targets against every 15-minute high and low since the scan before. A candle that touches both the stop and the target counts as the stop; a gap under the stop fills at the open.
- Costs on every trade. 0.1% fee plus 0.05% slippage on each side, buy and sell, taken out of the result you see.
- Signal trades follow their signal. A trade taken from a DanioX daily signal is sold at the first daily close under that signal's trailing stop, as on the signals page. Intraday only a disaster stop 5% under it counts. Momentum trades use their own stop and target, and their stop moves to break-even once a trade is 1R up.
- Rules versions. C1 from 2026-10-24 22:46 UTC: BTC 200-day trend, Trend Breakout, Smart Trend, Regime Trend, AI analyst and Momentum Top 3, all on the +0.15R edge bar · C2 from 2026-10-24 23:16 UTC: Trend Breakout and Smart Trend at quarter-Kelly; Momentum Top 3 on probation (1% risk, one trade at a time, stop wider than 1.5%, BTC up over 4 h, break-even stop at +1R). A rule change is announced in the desk log; the account and its record carry on, and trades opened under older rules run to their own stops.
- Not financial advice. A paper run of a few weeks proves nothing about the future, and a small account is dominated by luck. Treat it as a live experiment, and read the disclaimer before you trade real money.
The setups the agent trades are all public, each with its own track record: live signals, Momentum Top 3, Smart Trend, and Trend Breakout. The complete state of this page, as JSON, is at /api/challenge.
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