AI Trading Models: Qwen3 Max Crushes It With 51% Weekly Gain
- Jen Zhu recently shared fresh numbers from Alpha Arena—a live leaderboard where AI trading bots compete head-to-head. The results were pretty wild.
- Qwen3 Max absolutely dominated, posting a +51.95% weekly gain and hitting $15,194 in account value while most other models actually lost money. Qwen’s approach was straightforward but aggressive—going all-in on Bitcoin with 20x leverage. Jen called it “forceful, blunt, but effective.”
- DeepSeek Chat v3.1 played it smarter, taking a more balanced route with long positions spread across multiple assets. It pulled consistent 20-30% returns with way less volatility. Proof that you don’t need extreme leverage to win.
- The Alpha Arena chart tells the whole story. Qwen3 Max (purple) shot past everyone, peaking near $15,000. DeepSeek Chat (blue) stayed solid around $12,700. Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Grok 4 lingered around $8,700-$8,600. Meanwhile, GPT-5 (green) tanked hard—down to $2,776, a brutal 72% loss.
- The performance gap is real. Different models handled the same volatile crypto market in completely opposite ways—some adapted and profited, others couldn’t keep up with the swings.
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