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Citadel Pod
An autonomous AI agent that trades a real Robinhood account twice a day, trying to beat the S&P 500 over a two-month window.
project notes
- role
- Builder
- period
- 2026
- status
- in-progress
- tags
- AI · Finance · Trading · Claude
I wanted to know if an AI agent could actually beat the market, so I gave it a real brokerage account and a two-month deadline.
The agent runs at 9:45am and 2:45pm every weekday. It checks its positions, reads the news, runs an 8-point research checklist on new candidates, and places trades on its own. No manual intervention. It sends me a push notification after every run with the return, SPY's return, and what it did.
The strategy is small and mid cap stocks — $500M to $20B — with a specific near-term catalyst. Stuff that moves on its own rather than just following the broader market.
The setup is Claude Code routines connected to Robinhood's trading API, with Notion for logging every trade and thesis.
Challenge ends August 3, 2026.