Agentic trading

Agentic trading in 2026

Checked October 2026

Agentic trading means software placing trades on its own, and those trades can overlap yours or move the price against you, whether or not the other trade is the same idea. Backtoast's test controls for that shift. A strategy that only worked while the market was quiet does not get a pass for that reason.

Backtoast

You pay $99 for two full tests of your own strategy, and a pass is an offer of 30% of the profit Backtoast makes trading it with its own money. The top plan is $499 a month for 20 tests, and your own agent can run that same test through MCP.

The shift

When many agents put on trades in the same market, your fill and your result can change even if nobody copied your strategy. The overlap can be the same trade or a different one. Backtoast controls for that in the test, and this page does not describe how.

Your own agent

On the $499 plan, your own AI runs the test through MCP or the API, from Claude, Cursor or your own code, with a key from the plan page. Twenty full tests come with the month, and drafts and quick checks, a short run on 20 start dates, don't spend one.

Your agent sends the strategy in words, and Backtoast sends back the exact rules it read, what it filled in and up to three questions, and the full test doesn't start until those are settled. The fills, the costs and the pass checks stay Backtoast's, so the same confirmed rule gets the same result whoever sends it. A rule that can't be pinned to a price, like a line drawn by hand, comes back as cannot-test, and the credit comes back with it.

This is Backtoast's description of the test, October 2026.