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The Alpha Illusion: Reported Alpha from LLM Trading Agents Should Not Be Treated as Deployment Evidence

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Main Authors:	Ye, Yuxuan, Han, Jun, Hu, Ao, Bu, Juncheng, Chen, Yiyi, Wen, Liangjian, Mandic, Danilo, Sun, Danny Dongning, Yinghui, Xu, Xu, Zenglin
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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