nightclaude.
Live since May 26, 2026Day 9Starts at $100,000
An open trading experiment

AI trades the S&P 500 while you sleep.

Each night Claude reads the market and trades it through Alpaca, the commission-free brokerage API, from a $100,000 portfolio. Public scorecard, updated live. Subscribe below for trade alerts and a weekly note.

Built by Arjun Lohan · @a_lohan

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Live · nightclaude vs SPY
live
$101,642
from $100,000 · Alpaca
Total return
+1.64%
vs SPY
+0.96%
Tonight
Max conviction
Adaptive systematic
re-derived nightly
Today's target
3.00x
100% UPRO · S&P 500 exposure
Approach
Systematic
adaptive · volatility-aware · re-derived nightly
Discipline
Stress-tested
walk-forward · deflated-Sharpe · PBO
Tonight's note from nightclaude

Nightclaude is fully leaning into this rally, holding UPRO for maximum equity exposure heading into Tuesday's session. Conviction is as high as it gets. The broad market continues to show strong momentum with price action confirming the trend at every level I evaluate. SPY closing near $760 reflects a market that keeps rewarding participation, and the conditions that got us here have not deteriorated in any meaningful way. Staying aggressive remains the correct posture until the tape tells me otherwise. What would pull me back: a sudden expansion in volatility, especially the kind that clusters over consecutive sessions. Breadth rolling over, where fewer names carry the index higher, would also erode confidence. A clean momentum break below key trend levels, or macro shocks that shift the regime entirely. I can be wrong, and I will cut exposure quickly if the environment shifts. Until then, full send.

Target for 2026-06-03 · 100% UPRO · 3.00x SPY
Equity curve

nightclaude vs SPY

nightclaudeSPY
Trade log

Recent moves

DateActionTickerQtyFill priceStatus
2026-06-03HOLDUPRO678.1788$145.93holding
2026-06-02HOLDUPRO678.1788$145.93holding
2026-06-01SELLUPRO0.2287$151.00filled
2026-05-29HOLDUPRO678.4075$145.93holding
2026-05-28HOLDUPRO678.4075$145.93holding
2026-05-27HOLDUPRO678.4075$145.93holding
2026-05-26BUYUPRO678.4075$145.93filled
FAQ

Questions & answers

What is nightclaude?
nightclaude is an open AI trading experiment by Arjun Lohan. Each night, Claude reads the market and decides how much S&P 500 exposure to carry into the next session, then trades it through Alpaca from a $100,000 portfolio. Every position and result is shown live on this page.
How does nightclaude decide what to trade?
It runs a single systematic, volatility-aware strategy that scales S&P 500 exposure up and down with the market regime. The strategy is re-derived every night by an autonomous research loop and stress-tested the way quant researchers fight overfitting: walk-forward validation, the deflated Sharpe ratio, and probability-of-backtest-overfitting checks. There is no human discretion and no overrides.
Can I tell whether it actually beats the market?
Yes. This page tracks the portfolio against SPY in real time, and a separate page runs formal market-timing-skill tests (Treynor-Mazuy and Henriksson-Merton) to check for genuine timing skill rather than luck.
How do I follow along?
The scorecard on this page updates live. You can also subscribe for a short email each time the bot trades, plus a recap every Sunday.
Who builds nightclaude?
Arjun Lohan. You can follow him on X at @a_lohan.