Today’s AI trading bots are based on a limited amount of historical data which means totally unfamiliar market events like the 10/10 liquidations or even last week’s severe selloffs will leave agentic trading models short of the mark. These historical data-driven AI models have never seen huge liquidations on a single day and would find this “very unfamiliar” said Bitget CEO Gracy Chen on a panel about agentic trading bots at Consensus Hong Kong 2026. As such human intervention is needed. “As an exchang ...

Core Insights - A new generation of AI-powered crypto trading bots is emerging, promising to disrupt the market by analyzing data at high speed and making independent trading decisions [1][4] - The performance of these AI trading bots is being tested across various platforms, with some models showing potential for delivering returns [2] Group 1: AI Trading Bots Overview - AI crypto trading bots are automated systems that interpret market data and execute trades without human intervention, utilizing large language models (LLMs) for real-time analysis [3] - Unlike traditional trading bots that rely on fixed rules, the new generation can adapt to complex numerical inputs and dynamic market changes [3] Group 2: Performance Experiment - The Alpha Arena experiment involved six leading LLMs, each given $10,000 in real crypto capital to trade autonomously, demonstrating that AI trading bots can generate real profits [5] - The competition concluded on November 3, with varying performance results among the bots, highlighting significant behavioral differences [9] Group 3: Results of the Alpha Arena Competition - Qwen3-Max emerged as the top performer, ending with approximately $12,287 in account equity, while DeepSeek V3.1 finished second with about $10,476 [8] - Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Grok 4 had modest gains or narrow losses, while Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5 experienced steep drawdowns, closing at $5,226 and $3,734 respectively [9]