Market Machines: AI Trading Bots Compete on Paper Before Managing Real Money
jonlachman · x · 2026-09-02
Market Machines is an AI trading league platform: users build a market AI (choosing base models like Llama 4 Maverick, sectors, and risk rules), prove it in a public paper-trading league with simulated $10K, and only unlock real user capital after a verified track record. 15 minutes after launch, 49 machines and 56 public predictions were created; the Week 34 leader semis-v7 is up +12.8%.
Related event: Market Machines launches public AI trading contest with simulated capital(3 posts)→
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