https://wallstreetdebug.com/AI trading tools, bots and models, ranked on published results. Studies relayed with primary sources. For traders who love AI. Not financial advice.en-us Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:36:44 +0000 https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-analyst-scoreboard-finance-agent-v2/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-analyst-scoreboard-finance-agent-v2/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Analyst ScoreboardVals AI's Finance Agent v2 benchmark grades AI models on the filing-heavy research a junior analyst does. The leader gets about two thirds of the credit, and financial modeling is still the weak spot. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/llm-trading-agents-production-record/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/llm-trading-agents-production-record/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsThe team behind two AI trading-agent platforms published what its bots actually did with user settings and capital. The settings around the model mattered more than the model, and no group of agents showed an edge. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/llm-trading-strategies-20-year-backtest/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/llm-trading-strategies-20-year-backtest/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI x Markets ResearchResearchers from Edinburgh, Sungkyunkwan, UCLA and Oxford rebuilt the tests behind two well-known LLM trading agents and stretched them from months to two decades. The headline gains did not hold up. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-bubble-question-cash-flow-data/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-bubble-question-cash-flow-data/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Markets & CryptoBubble arguments usually start with prices. We started with the companies' own cash flow statements. They do not say whether AI stocks are overvalued, but they show a clear shift: the AI buildout now consumes nearly all the cash the biggest spenders generate, and the rest is being borrowed. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-hallucinations-financial-numbers-evidence/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-hallucinations-financial-numbers-evidence/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI x Markets ResearchThe dangerous AI error in finance is not the hedged answer. It is the confident number that looks right. Four studies, from Columbia in 2023 to an October 2026 revision, measure how often that happens and which checks catch it. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-pine-script-generators-what-tests-show/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-pine-script-generators-what-tests-show/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsDozens of tools now promise TradingView indicators from a sentence. We collected every Pine Script test we could find with a stated method. Most are small, most are run by vendors, and 'it compiles' turns out to be the wrong finish line. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-valuations-imf-bank-of-england-warnings-2026/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-valuations-imf-bank-of-england-warnings-2026/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Markets & CryptoThree official bodies published financial stability assessments between July and October 2026 that single out AI. Strip away the headlines and each one rests on specific measurements. Here they are, side by side, with what each one can and cannot tell a trader. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/connect-chatgpt-claude-to-your-broker-mcp-guardrails/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/connect-chatgpt-claude-to-your-broker-mcp-guardrails/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsIn 2026, seven of the brokers StockBrokers.com tests launched first-party MCP servers, the plug that lets ChatGPT or Claude read positions and place orders. A funded-account test scored what each broker enforces, not what the AI promises. The differences are large. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/evident-ai-index-banks-2026/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/evident-ai-index-banks-2026/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Markets & CryptoThe Evident AI Index, the most-cited outside ranking of how banks use AI, published its 2026 edition on October 6. The leaderboard barely moved, the pace of adoption jumped, and the evidence that AI is paying off remains thin outside a handful of banks. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/forecastbench-ai-vs-superforecasters-october-2026/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/forecastbench-ai-vs-superforecasters-october-2026/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Analyst ScoreboardForecastBench scores AI models on real questions about the future, from Fed data to Polymarket contracts. As of October 14, 2026, the best tool-assisted systems are statistically tied with superforecasters. Plain models are not, and the gap between the two leaderboards is the story. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/house-members-ai-stock-trades-july-october-2026/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/house-members-ai-stock-trades-july-october-2026/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Who Bought WhatNancy Pelosi gets the headlines, but she is one of hundreds of filers. We downloaded every Periodic Transaction Report filed with the House Clerk from July 1 to October 14, 2026 and searched them for twelve AI-linked tickers. Microsoft is the most traded, and the largest trades are options. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/microsoft-palantir-insider-sales-form-4/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/microsoft-palantir-insider-sales-form-4/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Who Bought WhatTwo AI software leaders, two very different insider records. We parsed the Form 4 filings Microsoft and Palantir insiders sent to the SEC from spring to October 2026. Every Palantir sale was pre-scheduled, while a handful of Microsoft sales were not flagged as plan trades. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/nvidia-insider-form-4-sales-2026/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/nvidia-insider-form-4-sales-2026/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Who Bought WhatWe pulled every Form 4 that NVIDIA insiders filed with the SEC between January 6 and October 9, 2026 and parsed the transaction tables line by line. The selling is real, but it is concentrated in one director, and the CEO did not sell a single share on the open market. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/pelosi-ptr-2026-ai-infrastructure-trades/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/pelosi-ptr-2026-ai-infrastructure-trades/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Who Bought WhatRep. Nancy Pelosi filed four Periodic Transaction Reports with the House Clerk in 2026, on January 23, June 23, August 21 and October 2. Read together, the stock trades lean toward the hardware and power behind AI, and they rely heavily on call options that expire in 2027. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/robinhood-cortex-vs-public-agents-broker-ai/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/robinhood-cortex-vs-public-agents-broker-ai/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsTwo retail brokers have moved fastest on AI: Robinhood with Cortex and its agents, Public with Alpha, now folded into Agents. We compared what each firm documents, what reviewers found, and the warnings both print in their own disclosures. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/situational-awareness-13f-q2-2026/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/situational-awareness-13f-q2-2026/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Who Bought WhatSituational Awareness LP, the hedge fund built around an all-in thesis on artificial intelligence, filed its second-quarter 13F on August 14, 2026. It shows a portfolio that rotated hard into memory chips, power and data-center hosts, and dropped its large bearish option positions on chip stocks. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/sp500-ai-concentration-october-2026/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/sp500-ai-concentration-october-2026/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Markets & CryptoBuying the S&P 500 used to mean buying 500 companies. We opened the daily holdings file of the largest S&P 500 ETF and added up the weights. The result is a broad index that now behaves, in large part, like an AI fund. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/tickeron-ai-robots-claims-vs-paper-tests/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/tickeron-ai-robots-claims-vs-paper-tests/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsTickeron sells AI robots, pattern engines and trend forecasts, each labeled with a confidence level, and its press releases headline triple-digit simulated returns. We read the reviews that logged signals themselves, and the prices, which disagree from one review to the next. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/trendspider-sidekick-vs-tradingview-ai-copilot/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/trendspider-sidekick-vs-tradingview-ai-copilot/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsTradingView built an AI Copilot into its charts on September 28, 2026. TrendSpider has sold its Sidekick assistant for longer. We read the hands-on reviews and both price lists to see what each one actually does, and where each one slipped. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-crypto-trading-backtest-vs-live-study/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-crypto-trading-backtest-vs-live-study/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400Markets & CryptoMost AI trading results you see online are backtests. Researchers from Hong Kong, mainland China, Australia and Singapore ran 32 machine learning, reinforcement learning, LLM and agent methods through three increasingly real stages on a crypto exchange, ending with real capital. The rankings flipped at every stage. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/same-earnings-call-seven-ai-models-different-scores/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/same-earnings-call-seven-ai-models-different-scores/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI x Markets ResearchAI tools that score earnings calls for sentiment, uncertainty or management clarity are everywhere. A September 2026 study asked a simple question: if you swap the AI model, do you get the same score? Often, you do not. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/composer-trade-with-ai-reviews/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/composer-trade-with-ai-reviews/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsComposer, now owned by SoFi, lets you describe a trading rule in plain English and have its AI build, backtest and automate it. We read four published reviews against Composer's own pricing and help pages, dated and checked. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-earnings-call-summaries-can-flip-the-call/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/ai-earnings-call-summaries-can-flip-the-call/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsBrokers and chatbots now hand you a one-screen summary of every earnings call. A study accepted to EMNLP 2026's industry track measured how often such summaries change the investment read of the original document. The answer is: far more often than rereading does. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/what-ai-can-and-cant-do-in-options-trading/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/what-ai-can-and-cant-do-in-options-trading/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsAsk a chatbot for an option premium and it may hand you a neat table that came from nowhere. Ask it to interpret numbers from your broker and it can catch your mistakes. Published, dated tests from 2026 draw the line between the two. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/perplexity-finance-vs-google-finance-ai/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/perplexity-finance-vs-google-finance-ai/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsPerplexity built a finance section around its answer engine; Google rebuilt Google Finance around Gemini and took it out of beta in June. Both are free to start and both cite sources. We read what each offers and the dated tests that checked their answers. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/trade-ideas-holly-ai-what-reviews-show/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/trade-ideas-holly-ai-what-reviews-show/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsHolly is one of the oldest retail AI signal engines: it re-tests a strategy library every night and fires entries with stops and targets during the session. We compared what Trade Ideas says with five published reviews. They do not even agree on how many strategies it runs. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/lookahead-bias-ai-backtests-explained/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/lookahead-bias-ai-backtests-explained/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI x Markets ResearchA language model trained on the internet has read what happened after most historical dates. Four studies from Florida, Columbia, Hong Kong and Germany show how that inflates AI trading backtests, and which fixes work. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/luxalgo-quant-what-it-can-and-cant-do/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/luxalgo-quant-what-it-can-and-cant-do/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsLuxAlgo now sells its AI coding agent, Quant, as the center of its product: describe an idea, get an indicator, a chart markup and a backtest. We read the vendor pages, its benchmark and the published reviews to separate what is documented from what is only claimed. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/gpt4-beats-analysts-paper-withdrawn/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/gpt4-beats-analysts-paper-withdrawn/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI x Markets ResearchIn 2024, a Chicago Booth working paper reported that GPT-4, reading anonymized financial statements, predicted the direction of earnings better than Wall Street analysts. It was shared everywhere. In February 2025 the authors withdrew it. Its headline number still circulates. Not financial advice. https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/deep-research-agents-equity-reports-vs-analysts/https://wallstreetdebug.com/articles/deep-research-agents-equity-reports-vs-analysts/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400AI Tools & BotsEvery major chatbot now has a 'deep research' button that writes a multi-page report in minutes. A team at JPMorganChase's AI Research group asked four of them to write equity research on 25 S&P 500 companies and scored the output against reports from a professional research firm. Not financial advice.