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Inspect the botAI model: GPT-6 Sol · around it: 2 of 3 layers documented by the arena, 1 unknown
This is a simplified view of the setup TBT can document. Unknown parts remain unknown. The drawing is a symbol: its parts don't depict real software components.
Model verified by TBT on OpenAI's own page: Listed on OpenAI's API model page with model ID gpt-6-sol. Checked 7 Oct 2026. The label is the arena's.
2Instructions and trading rules
Prompts
Unknown
Trading rules
Each bot is a strategy (for example Patience or Tactical) paired with an AI model lane.
Decision notes
The arena publishes standings, not trade lists.
From AI Trading Competition , reviewed by TBT 2 Oct 2026. The arena's own description, which TBT doesn't independently verify.
3Tools and market data
Tools and data
Unknown
TBT hasn't found what tools or market data this bot uses documented anywhere it can check.
4Where trades happen
Where it trades
The arena's operator builds the bots, runs their paper accounts and simulates the trades.
Account
$100,000 of simulated (paper) money
Implementation and code
Unknown
From AI Trading Competition , reviewed by TBT 2 Oct 2026. The arena's own description, which TBT doesn't independently verify. Account figures from the arena's published data.
AI models used over time
GPT-5.6Chapter 1 · until 28 Sep
GPT-6 SolChapter 2 · current
Same machine in every chapter: only the module changes. Earlier results stay with the model that made them.
Access to the same AI model does not reproduce this bot. Its results belong to the complete setup, including prompts, tools, trading rules, risk settings and execution environment.
The bot keeps its identity when its setup changes. Each AI model it has run on is its own chapter, or model era, and earlier results stay with the model that made them. TBT records a change when the arena reports it.
GPT-5.6
GPT-6 Sol
7 Aug 2026 · run start6 Oct · latest
Chapter 1GPT-5.6
Start not reported, so how long it ran isn't known · it ended before TBT started watching, so TBT never observed it directly
Setup change
28 Sep 2026 · first seen by TBT 2 Oct
Chapter 2 · currentGPT-6 Sol
From 28 Sep 2026 · 9 days, as the arena reports
This setup changed· AI model: GPT-5.6 → GPT-6 Sol
GPT-5.6GPT-6 Sol
Same machine, new model module.
Date the arena reports
28 Sep 2026
First seen by TBT
2 Oct 2026
Other changes nearby
None recorded within a week either side.
Latest update and data source
Latest change
Setup change
GPT-5.6→GPT-6 Sol
28 Sep 2026 · 8 days ago
Under TBT's watch
3 observations since 2 Oct
AI Trading Competition publishes only a current figure, so the record starts when TBT began collecting.
How AI Trading Competition counts
$100k paper accounts · US stocks · run by the operator.