I'd like to see this study replicated during a bear market

Agreed. While I don’t see it outperforming long held funds, it’d be interesting to see if they could pick up on negative signals in the news feed, and also any potential advantage of not being emotional about its decisions.

Yeah the timeframe is crucial here. The experiment began as Trump launched his tariff tweets which caused a huge downward correction and then a large uptrend. Buying almost anything tech at the start of this would have made money.