Fin-Analyst ranks first in FinMMEval 2026 Task 3 with +13.51% TSLA return

The authors present Fin-Analyst, a hybrid trading agent for FinMMEval 2026 Task 3 that combines an eight-specialist LLM pipeline with rule-based signals to trade Tesla (TSLA) and Bitcoin (BTC). On the final official leaderboard accessed on July 5, 2026, the system ranked first among all agents for TSLA.

• The LLM pipeline aggregates news, SEC filings, fundamentals, analyst forecasts, technical indicators, and social sentiment via a Meta-Agent.
• A lightweight rule-based three-signal vote is used for Bitcoin trading.
• Fin-Analyst achieved a +13.51% return on TSLA, outperforming Buy-and-Hold by 28.33 points with a Sharpe ratio of 4.10 and an 88% win rate.
• The BTC trade ended flat but remained above a sharply falling baseline.
• Ablation studies identified event-driven 8-K disclosures as the most influential signal for TSLA performance.

The results demonstrate that LLM pipelines can outperform fixed-threshold rules in sideways markets, motivating future memory-aware successors.