From Knowing to Doing: leaderboard

Evaluating whether large language model (LLM) agents can profit in capital markets is increasingly framed as end-to-end trading: place an agent in a historical market, let it trade, and measure portfolio returns. This setup is vulnerable to two evaluation failures. First, long backtests often overlap with the knowledge cutoffs of frontier LLMs, allowing memorized tickers, dates, prices, and market

Metric: Total ret. (self-reported). Source: benchmarklist.com. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.6 Plus85.29#120
2GPT-5.561.26#31
3Claude Opus 4.758.8#49
4MiniMax-M2.756.31#258
5Step 3.5 Flash21.86#270
6Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)8.25#58
7DeepSeek V4 Pro1.39#102
8GLM-5.1-3.55#97
9Kimi K2.6-24.23#104

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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