Paper trading by default
Results
The honest numbers.
In a 10-year replay, the daily part made less than the S&P 500. Here’s the full picture, including what the replay leaves out.
Please read: past results don’t predict future ones. It can lose money. Nothing here is financial advice.
The replay
Ten years, the same rules the app uses.
We replayed exactly how the daily part trades, from November 2016 to November 2026, across 2,387 US stocks, starting with $50,000.
- Daily part, a year
- 11.8%With spare cash in SPY
- S&P 500, a year
- 14.9%Same 10 years
- Worst drop
- 33.9%The S&P 500’s was 33.8%
- Worst month
- −12.8%Daily part, spare cash in SPY
Side by side
Return and worst drop.
Two ways of handling spare cash, next to the S&P 500.
| Version | Return a year | Worst drop |
|---|---|---|
| Daily part, spare cash in SPY | 11.8% | 33.9% |
| Daily part, spare cash kept as cash | 7.4% | 23.7% |
| S&P 500 | 14.9% | 33.8% |
Why park cash in SPY?
It raised the return from 7.4% to 11.8% a year. It also made the worst drop deeper, 33.9% instead of 23.7%, because the account then rises and falls with the market.
How the replay worked
- November 2016 to November 2026
- 2,387 US stocks
- Started with $50,000
- 1 share per signal, cash only, exactly as the app trades
Live record
Vrot’s own paper account, day by day.
Not a replay: the real app trading a paper account, posted each day next to the S&P 500 (SPY) from the same start.
- Vrot
- S&P 500 (SPY)
- Days
The live record starts soon. It will show every day, good or bad.
Paper money, not real money. Past results don’t predict future ones.
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What the numbers leave out.
Companies that failed
The replay uses today’s list of stocks, so it leaves out companies that later failed. Real results would likely be lower.
The future
Past results don’t predict future ones. It can lose money.
The 24/7 part
It isn’t in this replay. Its trading model hasn’t shown an edge over a simple rule.
The learning model
It watches every trade but has no proven skill yet, so it doesn’t change any trade.
Nothing on this page is financial advice. Please read the risk disclosure.
See it for yourself, on paper.
Run it on a free Alpaca paper account and watch what it does before you decide anything.