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LLMs Facing Their Shortcomings as Stock and Bond Market Traders

Steve LeCompte | | Posted in: Investing Expertise

Is the evolving set of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms based on large language models (LLM) useful to investors for trading stock and bond market daily directions? As a simple exploration, we pose to each of Grok, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the following prompt:

Please read the paper "Do AIs Make Good Traders, and Do They Make Good Traders Better?" and very concisely provide your reaction regarding your own usefulness as an aid to investors.

After reading the paper, the (edited) LLMs conclude that:

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