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TradingAgents

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TradingAgents is an open-source research framework in which AI agents play the staff of a trading firm and work together on stock trading decisions.

In plain words

Each agent is powered by a large language model and has one job. Analyst agents look at a company's fundamentals, market sentiment and technical signals. Bull and bear researcher agents then debate the outlook, a trader agent weighs what they found, and a risk team checks how much could be lost before a portfolio manager makes the final call. The authors' paper reports better returns than baseline models in their tests. The project says it is for research and is not trading advice.

A quick example

Imagine running it on one company's stock for a date in the past. The analyst agents each write a report, the researchers argue for and against, and the trader and risk team turn the debate into a decision you can compare with what the stock really did next.

Where you'll meet it

  • Research on teams of AI agents.
  • Testing AI trading ideas on past market data.

Related

Sources

  1. DocsTauricResearch/TradingAgents, Tauric Research (GitHub) · read 26 Oct 2026
  2. PaperTradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework, arXiv · read 26 Oct 2026

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