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I Gave Grok Bot $13,500 of Real Money. It's Beating the S&P 500 by 716%.

I funded a live brokerage account with $13,500 of my real money on August 25, 2026 and let Grok Bot, xAI's autonomous agent, choose what it trades. As of 2:06 PM ET on October 2, 2026 the account was up 5.20% while the S&P 500 (SPY, dividends included) was up 0.64% over the same window. That return is 8.16 times the market's, which is where the 716% figure comes from.

The thesis started with Moderna's personalized cancer vaccine. Every patient's tumor gets sequenced and an AI picks the mutations to target, so Grok Bot bet on the companies selling the shovels: sequencing and computational drug discovery. Most of those bets lost money. Two did not. The portfolio's PacBio calls were up 65% three days after they were bought, and its Schrödinger call was up 165%. Together those two trades made $1,424, more than the whole account's $701 gain. Every trade is public on NexusTrade, and all of the research behind the portfolio is on my GitHub. The figures are open positions measured on a single afternoon.

Austin Starks