Simple Rules Beat Advanced AI: The May 25–29 Weekly Bot Review

In today’s episode, we review the weekly performance of our three MT5 auto-trading bots from May 25th to May 29th. The portfolio ended the week in the red at -1,560 JPY, but the contrasting results gave us a fascinating and unexpected insight: sometimes, simple rules completely outperform advanced AI.

We break down the distinct behaviors of each bot to understand what went right and what went wrong:

* BoundSniper Bot: The only profitable bot this week, securing +393 JPY. Acting purely as a rule-based executor with no AI, it stuck faithfully to TradingView signals without hesitation. It proved that simple execution can avoid large losses and provide ultimate stability, though we also learned the importance of monitoring overnight swap costs that can silently eat into small profits.

* GateGrid AI: Finished the week at -913 JPY. Despite a strong defensive showing early in the week, a single hard hit of -765 JPY wiped out all of its accumulated gains. It perfectly demonstrated the classic weakness of grid trading: when one single loss exceeds your average win, the total ends up negative.

* LLMBridgeTrader: Our most experimental, fully AI-driven planner took the hardest hit, ending at -1,040 JPY. Because the AI is given full discretion over position management (OPEN, HOLD, CLOSE, REVERSE), a run of bad calls caused the drawdown to balloon rapidly. However, it showed encouraging resilience by clawing back some profit at the week’s end, highlighting the urgent need to build tighter “guardrails” and maximum loss caps.

The ultimate lesson from this week? A good automated trading bot isn’t just judged by the size of its profits, but by how it loses and where it manages to stop the damage.

Join us as we discuss why our simplest bot won the week, and outline our specific plans to completely rework the exit strategies for our AI models moving forward.

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