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TradingGroup: A Multi-Agent Trading System with Self-Reflection and Data-Synthesis

arXiv 2508.17565 ↗First posted 25 Aug 2025cs.AIcited by 8

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Financial trading and forecasting agents

Abstract (arXiv)

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have enabled powerful agent-based applications in finance, particularly for sentiment analysis, financial report comprehension, and stock forecasting. However, existing systems often lack inter-agent coordination, structured self-reflection, and access to high-quality, domain-specific post-training data such as data from trading activities including both market conditions and agent decisions. These data are crucial for agents to understand the market dynamics, improve the quality of decision-making and promote effective coordination. We introduce TradingGroup, a multi-agent trading system designed to address these limitations through a self-reflective architecture and an end-to-end data-synthesis pipeline. TradingGroup consists of specialized agents for news sentiment analysis, financial report interpretation, stock trend forecasting, trading style adaptation, and a trading decision making agent that merges all signals and style preferences to produce buy, sell or hold decisions. Specifically, we design self-reflection mechanisms for the stock forecasting, style, and decision-making agents to distill past successes and failures for similar reasoning in analogous future scenarios and a dynamic risk-management model to offer configurable dynamic stop-loss and take-profit mechanisms. In addition, TradingGroup embeds an automated data-synthesis and annotation pipeline that generates high-quality post-training data for further improving the agent performance through post-training. Our backtesting experiments across five real-world stock datasets demonstrate TradingGroup's superior performance over rule-based, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and existing LLM-based trading strategies.

Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Financial trading and forecasting agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 10 of its 23 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Aug 2025.

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  1. 2024TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework28 Dec
  2. 2023FinMem: A Performance-Enhanced LLM Trading Agent with Layered Memory and Character Design23 Nov

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  5. 2025To Trade or Not to Trade: An Agentic Approach to Estimating Market Risk Improves Trading Decisions
  6. 2025When Agents Trade: Live Multi-Market Trading Benchmark for LLM Agents
  7. 2026Agent Memory with Episodic Retrieval for Financial Decision-Making
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