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Financial trading and forecasting agents

399 papers3 this weekLow confidence in this grouping: the papers may belong to more than one topic, or the group may changeLow confidence in this grouping: the papers may belong to more than one topic, or the group may change · About

Keywords: financial, agents, trading, market, forecasting

Key facts. Financial trading and forecasting agents: 399 papers on arXiv since 2023 (data through 7 Oct 2026). 54 of its 399 mapped papers (14%) cite “TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework” (2024, arXiv 2412.20138). 51 of its 399 mapped papers (13%) cite “FinMem: A Performance-Enhanced LLM Trading Agent with Layered Memory and Character Design” (2023, arXiv 2311.13743). 35 new papers 17 Sep–7 Oct.

What’s new

17 Sep – 7 Oct 2026

35 new papers, 17 Sep – 7 Oct; 3 this week.

  1. This week · 3
  2. SOTA: Stock Options Trading Agents Guided by Option-Implied Return Distributions
  3. LiveMACE: Process-Aware Evaluation of LLM Agent Capabilities in Evolving Markets
  4. BazaarBench: Delegation Safety in Decentralized C2C Marketplaces Run by LLM Agents
  5. Earlier · 32
  6. EvoCast: Reliable Autonomous Research Agents for Iterative Forecasting Architecture Evolution
  7. Agent Policy-Value Audit: Separating Transition Composition from Event Selection in Financial LLM Agents
  8. Do Your Own Research: Learning to Forecast by Learning to Search
  9. Learning to Sell: Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Large Language Model Agents in Multi-Product Markets
  10. Better Deck or Different Judge? Evaluating Agentic Harness Gains in Corporate and Investment Banking
  11. QuantCode Model: Specializing Language Models for Executable Algorithmic Trading Code
  12. RICE-Alpha: Reliability-Informed Correction with Event Graphs for LLM-Agent Stock Forecasting
All 35
  1. Predictive Credit: Measuring What Scientific Explanations Add to Experimental Forecasts
  2. Janus: Evidence-Before-Effect Sagas and Offline-Verifiable Provenance for Agentic LLMs also fits: Agent threats, guardrails and governance
  3. EnterpriseBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Enterprise-Level Strategic Reasoning and Decision-Making
  4. The Default Trap: Rethinking Plan Evaluation in Tool-Using LLM Agents
  5. Frontier Autolab: Organizational Memory, Adversarial Dissent and Temporal Leakage in Multi-Agent LLM Firms Across Fifty Years of Technological Change also fits: Social simulation and multi-agent debate
  6. FromPitch2Board: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Long-Horizon Football Management also fits: Social simulation and multi-agent debate
  7. LiveOption: Evaluating LLM Agents in Structured Option Trading with Nonlinear Payoffs
  8. Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Symbolic Discovery for Financial Fundamental Analysis
  9. Self-Evolving Time-Series Forecasting Agents with Episodic Memory and Online Policy Learning
  10. Measurement Boundaries in LLM Financial Agent Evaluation: Fixed-Tape Execution and Multi-Defect Auditing
  11. Financial Fragility in Societies of LLM Agents: Coordination Failures and Stabilizing Mechanisms
  12. Screen Before You Serve: Simulation for Production Customer Experience AI Agents at 140M Scale also fits: Social simulation and multi-agent debate
  13. AlphaDiverse: Post-Training Local Quantitative Research Agents for Diverse Exploration in Alpha Factor Mining also fits: Web, search, and research agents
  14. Forecast-Dojo: Replayable Environments for Benchmarking and Training LLM Forecasting Agents
  15. Agent Memory with Episodic Retrieval for Financial Decision-Making
  16. PAWS: Policy-driven Agentic World Simulation
  17. Shopping by algorithm: How agentic AI deploys human heuristics as a surrogate consumer also fits: Social simulation and multi-agent debate
  18. Compliant with Local Controls, Collectively Discriminatory. A Governance Architecture for Multi-Agent AI in Regulated Finance
  19. SR-Fraud: An Outcome-Supervised Reflective LLM Agent Framework for Non-Stationary Payment Fraud Detection
  20. Propose, Don't Judge: An Anytime-Valid Referee for LLM Agents That Mine Investment Factors
  21. FinFIRST: Benchmarking Search Agents for Financial Information Retrieval, Sourcing and Traceability
  22. When Tomorrow Becomes Today: Self-Evolving Policies for Agentic Time-Series Forecasting
  23. FinInteract: Benchmarking Clarification and Intent Integration in Ambiguous Financial Question Answering
  24. Contagion on the Trading Floor: How Adversarial Signals Spread in Multi-Agent Trading Systems
  25. SoK: Trading Agents or Market Crashers? Dissecting Robustness and Security Failures in Academic Financial LLM Trading Schemes

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework2024cited by 54 here
  2. FinMem: A Performance-Enhanced LLM Trading Agent with Layered Memory and Character Design2023cited by 51 here
  3. INVESTORBENCH: A Benchmark for Financial Decision-Making Tasks with LLM-based Agent2024cited by 27 here
  4. FinCon: A Synthesized LLM Multi-Agent System with Conceptual Verbal Reinforcement for Enhanced Financial Decision Making2024cited by 25 here
  5. Large Language Model Agent in Financial Trading: A Survey2024cited by 14 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2023Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behaviorcited by 66 here
  2. 2023Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Modelscited by 13 here
  3. 2023WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agentscited by 21 here
  4. 2023MetaGPT: Meta Programming for A Multi-Agent Collaborative Frameworkcited by 43 here
  5. 2023AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversationcited by 37 here
  6. 2023A Survey on Large Language Model based Autonomous Agentscited by 41 here
  7. 2023FinMem: A Performance-Enhanced LLM Trading Agent with Layered Memory and Character Designcited by 51 here
  8. 2024FinCon: A Synthesized LLM Multi-Agent System with Conceptual Verbal Reinforcement for Enhanced Financial Decision Makingcited by 25 here
  9. 2024TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Frameworkcited by 54 here
15 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2023Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Toolscited by 56 here
  2. 2023Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learningcited by 51 here
  3. 2023CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Societycited by 17 here
  4. 2023Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIscited by 12 here
  5. 2023ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIscited by 17 here
  6. 2023AgentBench: Evaluating LLMs as Agentscited by 25 here
  7. 2023The Rise and Potential of Large Language Model Based Agents: A Surveycited by 21 here
  8. 2023EconAgent: Large Language Model-Empowered Agents for Simulating Macroeconomic Activitiescited by 10 here
  9. 2024Designing Heterogeneous LLM Agents for Financial Sentiment Analysiscited by 11 here
  10. 2024FinRobot: An Open-Source AI Agent Platform for Financial Applications using Large Language Modelscited by 12 here
  11. 2024τ-bench: A Benchmark for Tool-Agent-User Interaction in Real-World Domainscited by 18 here
  12. 2024Large Language Model Agent in Financial Trading: A Surveycited by 14 here
  13. 2024INVESTORBENCH: A Benchmark for Financial Decision-Making Tasks with LLM-based Agentcited by 27 here
  14. 2025TimeSeriesScientist: A General-Purpose AI Agent for Time Series Analysiscited by 11 here
  15. 2025StockBench: Can LLM Agents Trade Stocks Profitably In Real-world Markets?cited by 11 here

The 24 most cited of 861.

Browse

30 of 399, ranked 6–35

  1. 6FinRobot: An Open-Source AI Agent Platform for Financial Applications using Large Language Models202412
  2. 7TimeSeriesScientist: A General-Purpose AI Agent for Time Series Analysis202511
  3. 8StockBench: Can LLM Agents Trade Stocks Profitably In Real-world Markets?202511
  4. 9Designing Heterogeneous LLM Agents for Financial Sentiment Analysis202411
  5. 10AlphaAgents: Large Language Model based Multi-Agents for Equity Portfolio Constructions202510
  6. 11R&D-Agent-Quant: A Multi-Agent Framework for Data-Centric Factors and Model Joint Optimization20259
  7. 12FinAgentBench: A Benchmark Dataset for Agentic Retrieval in Financial Question Answering20259
  8. 13FutureX: An Advanced Live Benchmark for LLM Agents in Future Prediction20259
  9. 14TimeART: Towards Agentic Time Series Reasoning via Tool-Augmentation20268
  10. 15LLM-Powered Multi-Agent System for Automated Crypto Portfolio Management20258
All 30
  1. 16Strategic Collusion of LLM Agents: Market Division in Multi-Commodity Competitions20248
  2. 17HedgeAgents: A Balanced-aware Multi-agent Financial Trading System20257
  3. 18Evaluating LLM Agent Collusion in Double Auctions20257
  4. 19GridMind: LLMs-Powered Agents for Power System Analysis and Operations20257
  5. 20FinSearchComp: Towards a Realistic, Expert-Level Evaluation of Financial Search and Reasoning20257
  6. 21From News to Forecast: Integrating Event Analysis in LLM-Based Time Series Forecasting with Reflection20247
  7. 22TS-Reasoner: Domain-Oriented Time Series Inference Agents for Reasoning and Automated Analysis20247
  8. 23Toward Expert Investment Teams:A Multi-Agent LLM System with Fine-Grained Trading Tasks20266
  9. 24MarketSenseAI 2.0: Enhancing Stock Analysis through LLM Agents20256
  10. 25TimeCAP: Learning to Contextualize, Augment, and Predict Time Series Events with Large Language Model Agents20256
  11. 26FLAG-Trader: Fusion LLM-Agent with Gradient-based Reinforcement Learning for Financial Trading20256
  12. 27TimeSeriesGym: A Scalable Benchmark for (Time Series) Machine Learning Engineering Agents20256
  13. 28FLAIRR-TS -- Forecasting LLM-Agents with Iterative Refinement and Retrieval for Time Series20256
  14. 29Profit Mirage: Revisiting Information Leakage in LLM-based Financial Agents20256
  15. 30When Agents Trade: Live Multi-Market Trading Benchmark for LLM Agents20256
  16. 31FinDeepResearch: Evaluating Deep Research Agents in Rigorous Financial Analysis20256
  17. 32SheetAgent: Towards A Generalist Agent for Spreadsheet Reasoning and Manipulation via Large Language Models20246
  18. 33Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Evaluating Strategic Planning and Execution of LLM Agents in an Auction Arena20236
  19. 34Position: Beyond Model-Centric Prediction -- Agentic Time Series Forecasting20265
  20. 35FinToolBench: Evaluating LLM Agents for Real-World Financial Tool Use20265