# OpenFinGym: A Verifiable Multi-Task Gym Environment for Evaluating Quant Agents

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26350 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.26350/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Financial trading and forecasting agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use.
- Builds on 26 of its 50 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Jun 2026.

## Placed in

- LLM agents and tool use / [Financial trading and forecasting agents](https://mlsanity.com/agents/financial-trading-and-forecasting-agents/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 26 of 26)

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## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [EvoTS-Agent: A Self-Evolving LLM Agent for Financial Time Series Change Point Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.17933/) (2026)
- [From Search to Research: Exploring Search Scaling in Autonomous Quantitative Factor Mining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.35559/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Although large language model agents are increasingly applied to quantitative-finance workflows, their evaluation remains fragmented across isolated tasks, while the financial relevance of benchmark tasks is often overlooked. Yet financial workflows are inherently multi-stage, spanning interdependent tasks such as forecasting, strategy construction, risk management, and trading. Existing platforms typically focus on a single task, and can therefore overstate agent competence and fail to reveal weaknesses in generalization, real-market interaction, and financially meaningful decision-making. We introduce OpenFinGym, a unified gym environment for quantitative-finance agent development that covers forecasting, market generation, real-time trading, and fraud detection under a single execution and verification interface. OpenFinGym additionally provides an automated task-construction pipeline that turns quantitative finance publications into executable task packages; a containerised runtime with a host-side verifier service that supports scalable agent rollouts and prevents runtime train-test leakage; a paper trading engine with a low-latency data-stream design; deferred-resolution support for long-horizon and event-market forecasts; and integration for SFT and RL post-training
