AI Agents Fall Short in Live Trading

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🎤 A Q&A with Fin AI’s Jimin Huang and Lingfei Qian, on whether AI agents make for good investors.

INTERVIEW

Benchmarking AI Agents in Live Markets

AI doesn’t have enough real scoreboards.

It’s hard to tell what model or framework is better without real results, so that’s why I was pleased to see the folks at Fin AI build a platform that runs multiple AI trading agents in live markets, feeds them the same data, and tracks how they actually perform.

They’re not using real money, and transaction costs aren’t factored in, but it’s a helpful showcase of the pros and cons of the technology.

What it is

Agent Market Arena (AMA) is a live, open benchmark that paper-trades multiple AI trading agents across stocks and crypto, logging results on a public leaderboard. It evaluates agent frameworks under the same data, rules, and timing so results are comparable. 

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