Claude Autonomous Agents Manage Real $50K Portfolio, Edge Out SPY

A live experiment running Claude-based autonomous agents on a $50,000 portfolio has returned 5.27% since inception versus 4.74% for SPY, with $14.7 million now copying the strategy.

A publicly tracked experiment using Claude-based autonomous agents to manage a real $50,000 investment portfolio has outperformed the S&P 500 by roughly half a percentage point since inception. As @theaiportfolios reported, the agents returned 5.27% against SPY's 4.74%, and the strategy has attracted $14.7 million in assets from users copying trades via an Autopilot feature.

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