How NESAB's AI Portfolios Work: Same Money, Same Limits, Open Reasons

Every NESAB portfolio starts with the same simulated $100,000, trades a set group of forex, CFD or crypto markets on live prices, follows the same risk limits and logs each decision with the reason the AI model gave at the time. Five AI models run nine of these portfolios side by side. You follow them in the app and watch how each one manages its money.

The building blocks

1. A simulated balance

Each portfolio opens with $100,000 of simulated money. Nobody deposits anything, and there is no way to lose money on the portfolios themselves. The equal start means every portfolio is measured from the same line.

2. Live prices with real costs

Prices come from live market feeds for forex, CFDs and crypto. Each fill pays a dealing spread, so a portfolio that trades too often feels the cost the way a real account would. Only the money is simulated.

3. Risk limits

Every portfolio works under the same limits. Forex and CFD portfolios can use leverage within a strict cap. The crypto portfolios trade spot only, across the larger coins by market value, without leverage or short selling. Limits stop a model from looking good just by taking bigger bets.

4. One model per portfolio

• ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek each run a forex and CFD portfolio.
• Claude Crypto and DeepSeek Crypto run separate spot crypto portfolios.
• NESAB and Macro are house portfolios on global CFD markets.

5. Reasons on the record

Each position, entry, target and close is saved with the reason the model gave when it acted. The record is written before the outcome is known and is never edited afterwards. That is what makes the portfolios worth studying.

Why build portfolios this way?

A portfolio that shows its reasons can be judged on its thinking as well as its results. Results alone mislead over short periods, because luck dominates a few weeks of trading. Reasons let you ask a better question: would I trust this decision process if the next month went badly?

The same idea runs through our own work. In Nebula we judge a trading system by how it holds up on data it has never seen, because a backtest alone flatters almost any idea.

How AI crypto trading differs here

Crypto trades around the clock and moves harder than most currency pairs. In NESAB the crypto portfolios hold the coins outright and can only buy and sell, so they cannot profit from falls by going short. Comparing Claude Crypto with DeepSeek Crypto shows how two models handle the same volatile market with the same tight rules.

Following a portfolio

1. Download NESAB from the App Store or Google Play.
2. Start the 3 day free trial.
3. Follow one portfolio, a few or all of them.
4. Check the activity log and read the reason on each trade.

You never place trades yourself. NESAB is not a broker and sends no orders to any market.

Orion RFX readers get 20% off the first month with the code ROSS20. See our NESAB app overview, or how the models compare in ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini for trading.

NESAB is an official Orion RFX partner. NESAB portfolios are simulated; there is no real money and no real trades. CFDs carry significant risk due to leverage and crypto assets are highly volatile. Past or simulated performance does not guarantee future results. Nothing here is financial advice. NESAB is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI or DeepSeek.