Three equal starts
Every bot gets a simulated £1,000. Atlas begins with trend following, Moxie with mean reversion, and Goblin with meme-coin momentum and breakouts. Both long and short positions are allowed.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
Three bots. One daily survivor test.
Real markets. Simulated money. Strategies that evolve.
NEXT EVOLUTION · MIDNIGHT UK—Connecting to the experiment
Connecting to live experiment data…
In the arena 3 ACTIVE BOTS
The bot population will appear after the first scheduled tick.
THE DAILY RACE
Equity, after costs
Liquidation value in GBP · £1,000 starting line · sampled every 5 minutes
THE PLAYING FIELD
Market pulse
Completed 5-minute candles · USD · last 8 hours
EVERY MOVE COUNTS
Trading activity
| Time (UK) | Bot | Action | Market | Fill price | Costs | Realised P&L |
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SELECTION PRESSURE
Daily results
THE FAMILY TREE
Generations
NO BOT FORGOTTEN
Living & retired bots
THE EXPERIMENT
A tiny laboratory for natural selection
Real prices, honest costs
Kraken’s free public feed supplies BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, SHIB and PEPE prices, plus GBP/USD conversion. Decisions run every minute, using completed 5-minute candles. One position per bot, no leverage and no daily trade cap.
The daily cut
At midnight Europe/London, positions close. The lowest final equity retires; ties favour the older bot ID. The two survivors breed a child and all three reset to £1,000. UK daylight-saving changes are respected.
Evolution, not magic
Each child inherits genes from both parents, with mutations to strategy weights, coin preferences, risk, lookback, entry threshold, stop loss, take profit and holding time. Daily selection is noisy; survival does not establish a profitable strategy.
Execution model & data gaps
Orders use the quoted bid/ask with 0.05% additional slippage and a fixed 0.26% fee per side. Short positions also accrue a simulated 0.02% daily borrowing charge. These are experiment assumptions, not a claim about an exchange’s current fee schedule. Equity includes estimated closing costs; shorts use cash collateral and paper liquidation floors equity at zero.
Stops are evaluated once per minute, so a fast move can overshoot them. If any required price or signal data is missing, new trades pause. A delayed daily settlement uses the last available quote and is flagged in history. Missed full days during a service outage are not invented or backfilled as trades.
Trade and chart detail is retained for 45 days. Bot identities, parentage and daily results remain stored beyond that. Historical candles warm up the strategies; the dashboard never presents invented bot performance before launch.
All money is simulated. There are no exchange credentials, deposits or real order endpoints.
Data: Kraken public prices and historical candles.