This is f*cking insane.
I put my Claude agents on a $500 sim account and let them trade on their own.
First stretch was easy. Green, green, small red, green again. $500 turned into $1,612.
Then it went wrong. 7 losses out of 8 trades. $1,612 → $312. 80% gone in a few minutes.
I almost killed it.
RISK kept saying the setups were still valid. So I let it run.
Next 4 trades:
BTC short +$151
BTC short +$432
DOGE long +$644
XRP long +$1,076
$312 → $2,617.
28 trades. 17 wins, 11 losses. Worst drawdown I’ve ever sat through.
The balance keeps moving. The agents don’t stop.
One prompt. One model costs 569x more.
Claude Opus 5.5 at max effort vs
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017
Opus spent 2 hours checking its own frames.
DeepSeek thought for 10 minutes and shipped.
What the fuck is $22.77 buying you here?