A definition
Agentic trading is trading in which an AI agent does part of a trader's work: it reads the market, weighs it, and proposes or places orders. It is agentic because the agent acts, within limits someone set, instead of only answering a question.
The question is never whether a model can trade. It is what the model is allowed to decide, who checks it, and what it can reach when it is wrong.
Who decides what
- The model decides three things: the side, the market, and where the first entry goes, with its confidence and its thesis.
- The code decides the rest: the size, the distance between steps, the exit, and whether the trade is allowed at all.
- The person decides the frame: paper or real, the limits signed on the phone, and the charter's figures.
What can go wrong
- A model can misread a market or a text, or invent a figure.
- A model costs money: a day of deliberation is paid in tokens, and a trade that cannot pay for its own thinking should not be taken.
- A key on a trading machine can be stolen.
The guardrails
- A dossier frozen before any model is asked, so a decision rests on facts that can be checked.
- Verdicts the code runs on every proposal, each with its figures: one no, and nothing opens.
- A mandate signed on the phone, which the agent cannot widen.
- Paper by default, and a journal of everything.
Measure before you trust
A method is measured on the past before it is trusted. lpa pilot calibrate walks two years of candles and reports what the steps and the ladder would have done, with no model involved.
lpa pilot replay plays past days with the same code a real day uses, each moment seeing only what was known then. The pilot judges its past decisions against what the market answered, and writes its lessons.
One agent's day
The dossier
Candles, funding, open interest, fear and greed, the week's economic calendar, the headlines of the Fed, the ECB and CoinDesk. Frozen with a fingerprint, and refused rather than cut if it does not fit the model.
The reader
A first voice reads the texts alone, with no figures and no prices, and gives the climate of the day.
The trader
Reads the charter, the dossier, the climate and its own lessons, and ends on long, short or nothing. Nothing is the usual answer.
The verdicts
The market is allowed, the prices are figures, the entry sits in its zone, no high-impact release within twelve hours, room for a position, the costs counted. One no, and nothing opens.
The first step
Sized from the charter at leverage 3. The next steps are written in the plan at their prices.
The follow
Each hour, the steps the price reached are filled and the exit moves with the average.
What it is not
Agentic trading is not a promise of profit. A model that decides well on paper can still lose for real, and a measured method describes the past. The agent does the work you bound; the outcome stays a trade.