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Benzinga
Benzinga
Business
Shomik Sen Bhattacharjee

Redditor's $100 ChatGPT Day-Trading Experiment Trounces Two Benchmark Indexes With 24% Returns — Here's How It Pulled It Off

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With $100 and a dare to see what AI can do, a Reddit user turned ChatGPT into a micro-cap day trader and in its first month, the bot beat two small-cap benchmarks by a wide margin.

What Happened: Nathan Smith, who documents the project on Reddit and GitHub, fed OpenAI's GPT-4o daily portfolio data, enforced strict stop-loss rules, and limited picks to U.S. micro-caps under $300 million.

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