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

Introduces FARSIGHT, a framework that evaluates financial LLM trading agents at the scheme level for robustness under market turbulence, including flash-crash-like scenarios, and for security against attacks on information sources, attacks on agents, and agent-as-attacker behavior. Across 15 representative academic schemes, 80% fail at least one core robustness metric and 100% exhibit security vulnerabilities.

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." arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.19705.
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