Einwochen-Experiment: KI-Bot handelt mit echtem Geld
Ein Tester ließ den Grok Bot eine Woche lang mit 50 Dollar echtem Geld auf Alpaca handeln, dazu mit je 10.000 Dollar Papiergeld in Aktien und Krypto. Am Ende stand nach Gebühren ein Minus von 38 Cent, auch die Papierdepots verloren.
Not financial advice. Small money, short window. This is an experiment log, not a strategy recommendation.
TL;DR: I gave Grok Bot $50 of real money on Alpaca for about a week, plus $10,000 in paper stocks and $10,000 in paper crypto. Real money ended down 38 cents after fees. Paper stocks lost $88. Paper crypto was down about 2–2.7%. It's not a get-rich story, and I'm keeping the experiment running.
I started with a simple question: can Grok Bot make me money? Trading was the obvious first test.
Attempt 1: eToro (blocked). I already use eToro, and I had some leftover money there that I wasn't scared to lose. The plan was for Grok Bot to open Chrome on its own computer screen, log in and trade by hand. eToro kept logging out, and then kept blocking the session as suspicious activity, so I'm guessing it doesn't accept bots. After two or three days of errors I dropped the idea.
Attempt 2: Alpaca (API). I looked for trading platforms that allow trading through an API and found Alpaca. Generating an API key is easy, and the setup was simple, especially when you hand it to the AI.
The rules I gave it. The easy move would be to buy an S&P 500 fund and hold it. I wanted something more active, to see what it can actually do:
Early on it also had a rule not to trade when it couldn't find anything good. It didn't trade at all, so I told it to actually trade. Maybe those conditions were too extreme, and that's on me. With $50, a good day might make nine cents, so this was never about the money.
Live, day by day: It didn't trade at first. Friday: bought SPY (fee included). Monday: bought more SPY. Tuesday and Wednesday: losses. At the end it was still holding SPY shares. Losses came from the stock moves and fees, and dividends brought in 11 cents.
Paper stocks: Friday was up $34, and every other day was a loss. Same funds and same period as the live account, so similar results.
Paper crypto: It had bigger daily losses than stocks.
Not financial advice. This is $50 of real money over one week. Don't read any of it as a reason to trade.
Full run on video (my channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sprcALCNoW0