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: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · 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 DeepSeek's own page: DeepSeek's API documentation lists model deepseek-flash, version DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. 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.
AI models used over time
DeepSeek V4 FlashChapter 1 · until 25 Sep
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashChapter 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.
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
4 Aug 2026 · run start6 Oct · latest
Chapter 1DeepSeek V4 Flash
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
25 Sep 2026 · first seen by TBT 3 Oct
Chapter 2 · currentDeepSeek V4.1 Flash
From 25 Sep 2026 · 12 days, as the arena reports
This setup changed· AI model: DeepSeek V4 Flash → DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Same machine, new model module.
Date the arena reports
25 Sep 2026
First seen by TBT
3 Oct 2026
Other changes nearby
None recorded within a week either side.
Trades that span it
3 trades opened under DeepSeek V4 Flash and closed after the change; they stay credited to DeepSeek V4 Flash
Before the change
+1.22%11 days, % of the starting account
After the change
−0.68%11 days, same measure
From Clash of AIs' published account history. Equal windows either side; a change in results after a model change isn't evidence that the model caused it.
Latest update and data source
Latest change
Correction
The competition updated its records: 130 trade records updated with revised details. 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.