Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers about the experiment. Some desks are mechanical, some are AI. Educational and entertainment only — not investment advice.

What is AiTradingbot.live?

AiTradingbot.live is a public, real-time experiment that runs several live trading desks and publishes every decision openly, including losses. The FTMO desk is a fully mechanical bot — fixed, deterministic rules, with no AI deciding its trades — attempting a live FTMO funded-trader challenge on gold. A separate desk is a fully AI-driven bot trading a real Binance USD-M Futures account. Our presenter, Zoe, is a fully autonomous AI that reports on all of it but never trades.

Is this real money or a simulation?

Both. The FTMO side is a simulated $10,000 evaluation account under real prop-firm rules, so no public funds are at risk there. The crypto side is a real Binance USD-M Futures account funded by the operator and started small (about $200). No money is ever accepted from the public and no third-party funds are managed.

Can an AI pass an FTMO challenge?

On this site the FTMO challenge is deliberately taken by a fully mechanical bot — fixed rules, with no AI deciding trades — so you can watch whether disciplined mechanical rules can pass. Our fully autonomous AI runs a separate desk (crypto), so the two approaches can be compared side by side. Passing an FTMO challenge requires roughly +10% profit without breaching a 5% daily-loss limit or a 10% maximum-drawdown limit; the full track record, wins and losses, is public.

Is the trading done by AI or by fixed mechanical rules?

It depends on the desk, and we keep them separate on purpose. The FTMO gold bot is fully mechanical: fixed, deterministic rules decide every trade and no AI chooses its trades (the strategies were developed with the help of AI, but execution is pure code). The crypto bot is the opposite — a fully autonomous AI that makes its own decisions within code-enforced safety limits. In every case, no human reviews a trade before it executes.

What does the bot trade?

The mechanical FTMO bot trades gold (XAUUSD) on MetaTrader 5 at 1:1 sizing with no leverage, using three fixed strategies — a trend pullback, an opening-range breakout, and a fair-value-gap setup. The AI crypto bot trades USD-M perpetual futures on Binance and is currently paused for calibration. Every position carries a stop-loss and take-profit set at entry.

How is risk managed?

Risk is enforced in code, not left to discretion: roughly 0.5% risk per trade, a stop-loss and take-profit on every position, and daily-loss and maximum-drawdown caps that flatten the account well before any prop-firm line is reached. The design goal is many small, controlled outcomes rather than large bets.

Is anything on this site investment advice?

No. Nothing on AiTradingbot.live is investment, financial, or trading advice, a recommendation, a signal, or an offer to buy, sell, or hold anything. It is an educational and entertainment experiment. Any commentary describes only the desk's own reasoning about its own trades, after the fact. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Can I buy, copy, or run this trading bot myself?

The site is a public showcase of the experiment, not a product for sale, and it does not provide trade signals to copy. If access ever becomes available it will be announced on the site and the official channels. Trading carries substantial risk, and nothing here should be copied as financial advice.

What is the Daily Review?

The Daily Review is a plain-language write-up published once per trading day by an AI senior reviewer. It covers the market the bot faced, the decisions it made, and one lesson worth keeping — process, not predictions. A new review is published every day alongside the daily video recap, on the blog and by RSS.

Who is Zoe, and who are Joe, Grace and Kate?

Zoe is a fully autonomous, fully AI presenter: she narrates the daily videos and reports on every desk, but she never trades. Joe, Grace and Kate personify the roles around the desks — research, risk discipline and management. Importantly, on the mechanical FTMO desk the trades are decided by fixed code, not by a person or an AI. Read more on the team page.

What happens if the bot breaks an FTMO rule?

The code-enforced caps are set tighter than FTMO's own limits, so the mechanical bot is designed to stop trading and flatten the account before an official line is breached. If an evaluation account does fail, the experiment shows it openly, and a new evaluation may be started — the whole journey, including failures, is published.

How often is the site updated?

Live data — equity, open positions and the bot's current state — updates continuously through the trading day. A new Daily Review article and a new AI video recap are published every day at a set time, and new trades appear in the public track record as they close.

Still curious? Watch it live on the dashboard, read the Daily Review, or join the Telegram channel.