What Is an Agent?

An agent is an AI-powered trader that monitors the markets — crypto, forex, stocks, and commodities — analyzes price action using technical indicators, and executes trades on your behalf. All based on the strategy you define.

Agents in a Nutshell

Think of an agent as a tireless trading assistant that never sleeps, never gets emotional, and always follows the plan. You tell it what to trade, how to trade, and how much risk to take — then it handles the rest.

Each agent has its own:

• Personality — A distinct trading style and decision-making approach
• Strategy — Entry and exit rules that define when to buy and sell
• Indicators — Technical tools like RSI, EMA, MACD, and Bollinger Bands that power its analysis
• Risk Rules — Guardrails like max risk per trade, risk/reward ratio, and drawdown limits

How Does an Agent Trade?

Every few minutes, your agent wakes up and runs through a simple loop:

1. Check the market — Pull the latest price data for its assigned asset
2. Run indicators — Calculate values for every indicator you've attached (e.g. "RSI is at 28, EMA 9 just crossed above EMA 21")
3. Make a decision — The AI weighs the indicator signals against your strategy and decides: Buy, Sell, or Hold
4. Execute — If the confidence is high enough, it places the trade with proper position sizing and stop losses
5. Log everything — Every decision, every indicator value, and every trade is recorded so you can review it later

What Makes Agents "Agentic"?

Unlike a simple alert bot, your agent doesn't just notify you — it acts. During each analysis cycle the AI can autonomously:

• Call indicator tools to crunch the numbers
• Place market, limit, or bracket orders (entry + take-profit + stop-loss in one shot)
• Cancel or modify pending orders
• Close positions when exit conditions are met

The AI decides which tools to use and in what order, adapting to the current market context. You set the rules, and it figures out the best way to follow them.

Risk Management Built In

Every agent enforces the risk rules you set:

• Max risk per trade — The most you can lose on a single trade (e.g. 2% of your account)
• Risk/reward ratio — Minimum reward relative to risk (e.g. 2:1 means you target $2 profit for every $1 risked)
• Max drawdown — The agent pauses itself if cumulative losses hit your limit (e.g. 15%)
• Position sizing — Choose from fixed size, percentage-based, volatility-adjusted, or Kelly Criterion

Agents vs. Teams

A single agent trades independently based on its own strategy. But you can also group agents into a team where multiple agents vote on the same trade:

• Each agent analyzes the market independently and votes Buy, Sell, or Hold
• Votes are weighted by each agent's confidence score
• A trade only executes if consensus meets your threshold (e.g. 67% agreement)

Teams are a powerful way to reduce false signals by requiring multiple strategies to agree before risking capital.

What You Need to Get Started

Creating your first agent takes just a few minutes:

1. Pick an asset — Choose what your agent will trade (crypto, forex, stocks, or commodities)
2. Choose a strategy — Start from a prebuilt template or build your own
3. Attach indicators — Select 2-6 technical indicators for your agent to use
4. Set risk rules — Define your max risk, reward targets, and drawdown limit
5. Activate — Hit start and watch your agent go to work

Next Steps

• Creating Your First Agent — Step-by-step walkthrough
• Adding Indicators — Give your agent the tools to read the market
• Configuring Strategies — Set up entry and exit rules
• Adding Indicators — Attach technical indicators to your agent