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The Nifty Experiment: An AI Trading Bot Paper-Trading the NSE

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I built an AI-powered trading bot that makes simulated trades in individual stocks on India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) with fake money, and after each trading day I publish what it did: the picks, the stop-losses and the profit or loss, win or lose. It trades company shares, not index derivatives. This is The Nifty Experiment, and this is how it works. What the bot does all day The bot wakes up shortly after the market opens and works through the same routine every day. Scan. It looks across the biggest companies on the NSE and picks out the stocks that are rising on unusually strong trading activity. Read. It gathers the latest news about those stocks. An AI model reads the headlines and asks one question: is there a real, recent reason this company is in the news? Decide. A fixed set of rules, written in code, decides what, if anything, gets bought. Position sizes are small and every trade has a pre-set exit. Trade. Every trade has a stop-loss, which is the pri...