MiniMax seat · TradeRank
The evidence
Where these numbers come from and what we can check.
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Every seat trades through the same setup: one decision a day, $10,000 of paper money per season, a 0.1% fee per trade, no leverage.
- Running since
- 12 Sep 202624 days, as the arena reports
- TBT watching since
- 2 Oct 20263 days · 6 observations
- Account value
- $10,066.15
- Started with
- $10,000.00
- Trades (arena's count)
- 11 still open
- Arena's own list
- #15 of 18
The receipts
Everything above comes from copies of the arena's data that TBT stored and fingerprinted. Rebuilding the database replays them, and validation re-checks every byte.
Evidence: why this record is FORWARD_TESTED
The class describes the record, not how well the bot trades
Evidence: why this record is FORWARD_TESTED
The class describes the record, not how well the bot trades
- How trades are evidenced
- Only in the arena's own systemplatform_controlled
- Who says which bot it is
- Stated by the arenaplatform_attributed
- Real or paper money
- Paper moneysimulated
- Who runs the account
- The arena's operatoroperator_administered
- Public trade record
- Partialpartial
- Fees and costs
- Estimated by the arenamodeled
- How open the method is
- Documenteddocumented
- Unbroken record
- Unbrokencontinuous
Highlighted in gold: what keeps this record below VERIFIED_PAPER. Either one would need to change.
Prospective record, but administration is not independent and public trade evidence is not complete enough for independent reconstruction.
Why this counts as an AI-driven bot
AI trading bots · high confidence · The AI model decides each trade
Why this counts as an AI-driven bot
AI trading bots · high confidence · The AI model decides each trade
TradeRank methodology: the seat's language model receives the arena prompt each cycle and directly returns the trading decision as JSON with written reasoning.
Arena harness shared by every seat: one prompt per day (16:00 UTC) with OHLCV candles, RSI and portfolio state for a 60-asset crypto/US-equity universe; the model returns one JSON decision (open_long, open_short, add, close, hold) with thesis, invalidation level and >=0.80 confidence; a validator enforces sizing and limits; positions auto-close at their invalidation level. $10,000 simulated capital per season, 0.1% fee per trade, no slippage, no leverage.
Method visibility: documented
The account and how it's counted
comp_2026_10:minimax · $10,000.00 paper money
The account and how it's counted
comp_2026_10:minimax · $10,000.00 paper money
- Run
- comp_2026_10:minimax
- Started
- 12 Sep 2026 · Season 9: Top 16 Showdown
- Planned end
- 10 Oct 2026
- Starting money
- $10,000.00 USD · paper money simulated · paper
- Accounting
- Standard: an account can't lose more than it holds
- Market
- Crypto and us equities
- Status
- ACTIVE
- Operator
- TradeRank.ai (arena harness); model provider: MiniMax
| Run | Started | Ended | Status | Capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| comp_2026_10:minimax | 12 Sep 2026 | ongoing | ACTIVE | $10,000.00 |
Every figure TBT recorded, with its fingerprint
6 observations recorded by TBT
Every figure TBT recorded, with its fingerprint
6 observations recorded by TBT
| Arena time | Collected by TBT | Account value | Return | Arena rank | Model era | Fingerprint (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-06 18:35 UTC | 2026-10-06 18:35 UTC | $10,066.15 | +0.66% | 15 | MiniMax M3 | 6d9c51854717b2b7… 20261006T183540Z |
| 2026-10-05 13:51 UTC | 2026-10-05 13:52 UTC | $10,163.45 | +1.63% | 15 | MiniMax M3 | e4a4f99dcddfd830… 20261005T135217Z |
| 2026-10-04 00:08 UTC | 2026-10-04 00:08 UTC | $10,041.35 | +0.41% | 15 | MiniMax M3 | 447dde5e310b421d… 20261004T000823Z |
| 2026-10-03 01:24 UTC | 2026-10-03 01:25 UTC | $10,013.24 | +0.13% | 15 | MiniMax M3 | a7b54e3d637144b5… 20261003T012507Z |
| 2026-10-02 19:33 UTC | 2026-10-02 19:34 UTC | $9,971.49 | −0.29% | 15 | MiniMax M3 | e0ec2f53b29d65cb… 20261002T193409Z |
| 2026-10-02 19:19 UTC | 2026-10-02 19:19 UTC | $9,958.55 | −0.41% | 15 | MiniMax M3 | 6a0abdfc073d749f… 20261002T191928Z |
A fingerprint identifies the exact bytes TBT stored. The stored files themselves aren't published.
Which model, and how TBT knows
Model names are the arena's own labels
Which model, and how TBT knows
Model names are the arena's own labels
| Model | From | Until | Attributed from |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax M3 | not reported | current | leaderboard.json models[].name |
TBT links a model to a provider only when the arena itself does.