The reel claims "$87 into $8,000". Here is the same desk design (scout → news → chart → skeptic) trading $100 of paper money on Coinbase prices, every 15 min, with real spreads and a 0.6% fee. Two desks (Grok, and a free local Qwen model) against two baselines.
■ Grok desk: $100.00■ Qwen desk: $100.00■ Random entry: $100.00■ Buy & hold BTC: $98.17
Gaps in a line = the machine was off or the feed was down; nothing is back-filled. Updated 2026-10-16 22:15 UTC.
| book | coin | opened | entry | stop | target | exit | P&L | why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hold | BTC | 2026-10-15T21:45 | 82175.4 | — | — | — | open | buy-and-hold baseline |
| at (UTC) | book | kind | detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16T20:45 | all | deploy_failed | wrangler exit 1 |
Prompts are reconstructed from the reel's role descriptions (its exact prompts are
behind "comment GROK") and were frozen before the first trade. SHA-256 of the desk and book source:
8a6f590bf2b97a46005c8aa27ca55ef73fa0e6616e3547c98bd6f3ea9ab155cd. Paper money, not financial advice.