SoK: Trading Agents or Market Crashers? Dissecting Robustness and Security Failures in Academic Financial LLM Trading Schemes

A systematization-of-knowledge study of the security and robustness failures reported across academic LLM-based financial trading schemes. The paper catalogs attack surfaces — prompt injection, jailbreak, prompt leaking, tool misuse — and evaluates published defenses under a common threat model.

Recommended citation: Mengxiao Wang and Nitesh Saxena. (2026). "SoK: Trading Agents or Market Crashers? Dissecting Robustness and Security Failures in Academic Financial LLM Trading Schemes." Under review.