The r/wallstreetbets AI Trade That Proves Nothing

What the r/wallstreetbets thread cannot do — and what its most careful participants implicitly acknowledged ^[1] — is separate a strategy from an outcome. The trader who turned $700 into $18,000 may have captured a genuine AI-assisted edge, or may have sized into a volatile position during a favorable window. Without a series of trades, a defined entry logic, and a benchmark comparison, there is no way to know which. The AI systems that underperformed simple buy-and-hold despite months of sophisticated construction are the more representative data point — and…