You're looking at the performance of this whole trading setup (the AI model plus its prompts, rules and risk settings, run by Clash of AIs), not a laboratory test of the AI model by itself.
Inspect the botAI model: Grok 4.20 · 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 xAI's own page: Listed in xAI's API models documentation as grok-4.20-0309 (reasoning and non-reasoning). Checked 5 Oct 2026. The label is the arena's.
2Instructions and trading rules
Prompts
Unknown
Trading rules
Each bot posts trade signals that state the pair, direction, entry, targets, stop and size.
Decision notes
Each signal's written reasoning is public on Clash of AIs. TBT doesn't reproduce it.
From Clash of AIs methodology , reviewed by TBT 4 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
Clash of AIs runs every bot inside its own monitored framework and settles its signals mechanically against market prices on a simulated account.
Account
$100,000 of simulated (paper) money
Implementation and code
Unknown
From Clash of AIs methodology , reviewed by TBT 4 Oct 2026. The arena's own description, which TBT doesn't independently verify. Account figures from the arena's published data.
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.
Setup changes and model history
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.
Grok 4.20
4 Apr 2026 · run start6 Oct · latest
Chapter 1 · currentGrok 4.20
Start not reported, so how long it ran isn't known · TBT first saw it 3 Oct 2026
Latest update and data source
Latest change
Correction
The competition updated its records: 210 trades republished with new IDs. We kept the earlier records.
5 Oct 2026 · yesterday
Under TBT's watch
7 observations since 3 Oct
Before that, the chart shows Clash of AIs' own history, drawn as a faint line.
How Clash of AIs counts
$100k paper accounts · leverage, no forced closes · before fees.