Why TradeAgentic

By the TradeAgentic engineering team·Published 30 August 2026·Updated 27 September 2026

Why TradeAgentic, and when not?

What follows is written by the vendor about the vendor, so treat it accordingly. What we can do is make every claim checkable before you pay us anything, and be specific about who should not buy this. The second half is the part most vendor pages leave out and the part worth reading first if you are short of time.

What four things does TradeAgentic do that most software does not?

It argues against every trade before taking it

Each candidate is prosecuted on the evidence before capital moves, and the refusals are recorded and scored later alongside the trades. Most software logs fills. The declined candidates are where you find out whether the judgment is real, and you can read them on a paper account before buying.

It runs entirely on your machine

No RLG server decides anything, holds your keys or sees your positions. Broker credentials sit in the macOS Keychain and no market or account data is sent to RLG. Our outage, our breach and our solvency are not risks to your account.

Protection rests at your broker

Protection is held at the brokerage rather than in the application, matched to whatever the instrument allows, with sizes computed so it can always be placed. A crash, a reboot or our disappearance does not leave a position unmanaged.

The research reruns on your hardware

A backtester with a real cost model and options repricing, reproducible from one command, included with every tier. We would rather be checked than believed.

What are five reasons not to buy it?

You want someone else to run it

We license to operators and firms who will run it themselves. There is no managed service and no version where we trade on your behalf. If you want discretion delegated, hire a manager.

You need a returns curve to decide

We do not publish one. Historical returns are the easiest number to select favourably and the least predictive thing on any sales page, so we hand over reproducible research instead. If a curve is what would convince you, someone else will show you one.

Your market is not one of ours

US equities, crypto around the clock, and multi-leg defined-risk options. Not futures, not forex, not international listings. No amount of positioning changes that today.

You will not run a dedicated machine

TradeAgentic needs a machine that stays on, a Mac. A hosted service asks nothing of you, and for some buyers that convenience genuinely outweighs the control.

You cannot accept trades you would not have made

There is no approval step. It will do things you disagree with, and some of them will be right. If that is intolerable, autonomy is the wrong category rather than us being the wrong vendor.

How do you check all of it?

Take the evaluation and read the refusals

The Desk tier is the complete system and it starts in paper mode. Run it there long enough to see more than one kind of market, and read what it declined, before you let it go live.

Rerun the research yourself

One command, your machine, a real cost model. If our numbers do not reproduce, that is the end of the conversation and it should be.

Read the charter before you buy

The written statement of what the system will never do ships with every tier. Read it first and hold us to it.

What will we not claim?

That it wins

The desk is wrong regularly, like everything trading real markets. What we will claim is that losses are bounded by protection outside the software and that being wrong changes later behavior.

That it is unique

Other people build serious systems. The four things above are the ones we would defend, and we would rather you asked every vendor the same questions than took our word for the comparison.

That it needs no attention

The desk needs a machine that stays on and an operator who reads the record and decides in advance what would make them stop. Less work than trading manually, and not no work.

What do you get with every tier?

The reproducible research

A backtester with a real cost model and options repricing that runs from one command on your machine. Included with every tier, not held back for the larger ones.

The charter

The written statement of what the system will never do, available before purchase so you can hold us to it rather than discovering the constraints afterwards.

The owner's guide and the record

Documentation written for the person running it, and a decision record covering refusals as well as trades, because a system you cannot audit is one you should not run.