Choose the job
Three categories share one search term.
Market platforms create contracts, manage liquidity, and settle outcomes. Analytics tools compare probabilities, positions, or activity across venues.
Trading agents consume market data and produce an order or explicit refusal. They need stronger controls because a sound forecast can still become a poor trade.
Six checks before you automate
| Check | What good software shows | Warning sign |
|---|---|---|
| Market data | Named venues, current prices, close times, and outcome rules | Probabilities without source or timestamp |
| Execution | Executable quotes, fees, slippage, and price impact before submission | Backtests using midpoint prices as fills |
| Evidence | Declared sources, freshness limits, and exact settlement mapping | Free-form claims that cannot be replayed |
| Risk | Spend, bankroll, size, impact, and stale-quote limits | One confidence score controls the order |
| Recovery | Duplicate protection and explicit ambiguous-order handling | Blind retries after a lost response |
| Proof | Decision receipts through settlement and realized results | Simulated profit presented as live performance |
Automation boundary
No trade is a valid output.
Reliable software fails closed when evidence, quotes, or transaction state is stale or unclear. It does not turn missing data into certainty.
Ask how the system handles restarts, partial responses, settlement, and redemption. These paths decide whether performance claims can be trusted.
Where Settlement Edge fits
A narrow trading agent, not a market platform.
Settlement Edge is open-source TypeScript software for the closed Gensyn Delphi Agent Arena competition. It validates reviewed facts, requests quotes, applies strict caps, and hash-links decisions.
It is not a hosted prediction market, analytics dashboard, mainnet system, or proven profit engine. The final record shows 0 submitted orders and 0.0000 TST realized P&L.
Evidence and next read
- How Settlement Edge works
- Trading agent vs forecasting agent
- Verified competition closing record
- Source repository and tests
Product scope and observed result checked August 26, 2026.