The Autonomous Trading Agent: Designing an AI-Powered System for Systematic Currency Trading, Risk Management, Backtesting, and Automated Execution

By: Caldwell, Ethan

What if your trading system could research the market, evaluate opportunities, manage risk, execute predefined orders, and monitor itself-without requiring you to sit in front of a screen all day?

The Autonomous Trading Agent is a practical guide to designing a systematic currency-trading workflow built around automation, disciplined decision-making, and strict risk controls.

Inside this book, you will learn how to design an automated trading agent that can:

- Collect and validate market data
- Build meaningful trading features
- Rank potential currency opportunities
- Generate rule-based trading signals
- Apply position-sizing and risk controls
- Manage stops, targets, and time-based exits
- Handle execution, slippage, and transaction costs
- Perform realistic backtesting
- Use walk-forward testing and stress testing
- Detect look-ahead bias and other research errors
- Monitor live system health and trading performance
- Reconcile positions with a broker
- Handle failures, API interruptions, and unexpected conditions
- Use logging, version control, and emergency shutdown procedures

The book also explains why no automated trading system can guarantee profits or predict the market with certainty. Instead of chasing the fantasy of a perfect strategy, it focuses on building a controlled system designed to operate within clearly defined boundaries.

Whether you are a trader interested in automation, a developer exploring algorithmic trading, or a systems thinker looking to understand how an autonomous trading workflow can be engineered, this book provides a structured framework from research and strategy design to testing, paper trading, monitoring, and controlled deployment.

The objective is simple: build the process first, test the assumptions, control the risk, and automate only what can be measured and monitored.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKWQC417
• ISBN13: 9798176744477
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"