AI Trading Agent— Real Data, Not Hallucinations

Combine GPT-4 or Claude reasoning with live indicator data via tool_use. Your agent fetches RSI, summary, screener results and reasons about them — no hallucinated prices.

No card required to testOpenAI + Claude tool callingExecution stays in your app or broker
15+API endpoints
42Indicator catalog
4Official SDKs
RESTTool-call friendly
$2.50PAYG starting credit
Why tool grounding matters

LLMs are good at reasoning. They are not live market-data feeds.

The clean architecture is to keep current market state outside the model and expose it through explicit tools. That makes every quote, indicator and event source inspectable by your application.

Prompt-only approach

Ask the model to “know” the market.

The prompt contains stale snippets or no live state at all, leaving the model to fill in missing context from prior knowledge.

  • Current prices and indicator values are not guaranteed to be present.
  • Every extra dataset becomes more text you must assemble into the prompt.
  • Harder to audit which facts drove the response.
  • Event timing, screening and multi-symbol context quickly become brittle.
prompt LLM guesses context
Tool-grounded approach

Let the model request the data it needs.

Your application registers TickAtlas endpoints as tools. The model chooses a tool, your app executes the request, and the structured result goes back into the reasoning loop.

  • Live or recently computed market values arrive as explicit JSON.
  • Different questions can call different tools without bloating every prompt.
  • Tool calls and results can be logged independently from model output.
  • The same API layer works with OpenAI, Claude or your own model stack.
LLM tool call JSON reasoning
Agent architecture

Keep reasoning, data and execution as separate layers.

TickAtlas sits in the data/tool layer. Your LLM decides what context to request; your application controls which tools are exposed; and any broker or action system stays behind its own policy boundary.

  • Model layer: OpenAI, Claude or another LLM handles language and reasoning.
  • Tool layer: your application exposes only the endpoints the agent is allowed to call.
  • Market layer: TickAtlas returns quotes, calculations, screening results and event context as JSON.
  • Policy layer: thresholds, approval rules, position sizing and execution permissions stay deterministic and auditable.
User / scheduler Question, workflow trigger or scheduled run. "Analyze EURUSD"
LLM reasoning Selects which registered data tool is needed next. tool_use
TickAtlas tools Quotes · indicators · screener · calendar · heatmap · summary. JSON
Policy / guardrails Deterministic rules, thresholds, risk checks and human approval. your code
Output / action Report, alert, dashboard update, or separately authorized broker action. your app

Important boundary: TickAtlas provides data and analytics. Broker execution is not part of the API and should stay a separate, explicitly permissioned integration.

One API, multiple agent tools

Expose exactly the market context your agent needs.

A useful agent rarely needs one giant endpoint. It needs small, composable tools with predictable schemas that can be called only when the task requires them.

GET /v1/summary

Market summary

Give the agent a compact, pre-computed market view instead of asking it to aggregate dozens of signals itself.

Explore Market Summary
GET /v1/indicator

Technical indicator

Fetch RSI, MACD, Bollinger, ADX, Ichimoku and other values as explicit inputs to the reasoning loop.

Explore Indicators
GET /v1/screener

Market screener

Let the agent discover symbols matching a condition before spending model tokens analyzing individual markets.

Explore Screener
GET /v1/calendar

Economic calendar

Give the agent scheduled macro events, impact, forecasts, previous readings and released actuals.

Explore Calendar
GET /v1/heatmap

Currency strength

Pass a normalized cross-currency strength view into an agent that needs pair selection or broad FX context.

Explore Heatmap
GET /v1/quote

Live quote

Fetch current bid/ask values when the question needs explicit price context rather than model memory.

View API Reference
Interactive agent path

See which tools a task should call before the model answers.

Choose a symbol, timeframe and task. The example updates to show a sensible tool sequence and the kind of structured context returned to your LLM.

No live request is made here. No live request is made here. This visualizes the tool-routing pattern so you can understand the architecture before creating an API key.

EURUSD · H1 · Market brief tool routing example
User intent

Summarize EURUSD on H1 with current technical context.

Tool call

Fetch the computed market summary.

GET /v1/summary?symbol=EURUSD&timeframe=H1
Optional enrichment

Pull one explicit indicator if the agent wants to inspect a key signal.

GET /v1/indicator?symbol=EURUSD&indicator=RSI_14&timeframe=H1
Agent output

A concise explanation grounded in the returned summary and indicator values, with the source tool calls available in your trace log.

Bring your own model

Use the reasoning stack you already trust.

TickAtlas is REST underneath. Register the endpoints as tools in your model framework, call them from an agent loop, or consume them directly in your application before prompting the model.

AI assistant

ChatGPT / OpenAI

Use Custom GPT Actions or function calling to give OpenAI models access to fresh market-data tools.

Open integration guide
AI assistant

Claude

Register the endpoints with Claude tool use for programmatic agents and market-analysis workflows.

Open integration guide
Application code

Python / TypeScript

Use the official SDKs when you want retries, rate-limit awareness and typed client behavior in your app layer.

View official SDKs
Automation

n8n / Zapier

Trigger scheduled analysis, enrich workflows with market context, then route the result to Slack, Discord or email.

Browse integrations
Implementation pattern

A minimal tool loop is surprisingly small.

The core pattern is the same across model providers: declare a market-data tool, execute the request when the model asks for it, append the tool result, and continue the conversation.

Agent loop
# Pseudocode: agent loop
while task_not_done:
    indicator = call_tickatlas("indicator", {"symbol": "EURUSD", "indicator": "RSI_14", "timeframe": "H1"})
    summary = call_tickatlas("summary", {"symbol": "EURUSD", "timeframe": "H1"})
    decision = llm.reason(indicator, summary, prior_state)
    if decision == "trade":
        execute_via_broker_api(...)
OpenAI · function calling
from openai import OpenAI
import requests, os

client = OpenAI()
API_KEY = os.environ["TICKATLAS_API_KEY"]

TOOLS = [{
    "type": "function",
    "function": {
        "name": "get_market_summary",
        "description": "Get structured market context for a symbol/timeframe",
        "parameters": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
                "symbol": {"type": "string"},
                "timeframe": {"type": "string"}
            },
            "required": ["symbol", "timeframe"]
        }
    }
}]

def run_tool(args):
    return requests.get(
        "https://tickatlas.com/v1/summary",
        headers={"X-API-Key": API_KEY},
        params=args,
        timeout=10,
    ).json()

# Send TOOLS to the model. When it returns a function call,
# execute run_tool(...), append the JSON result, then continue.
Raw REST
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://tickatlas.com/v1/summary?symbol=EURUSD&timeframe=H1"

# The same authentication pattern works for the other tools:
#   /v1/indicator   /v1/screener   /v1/calendar
#   /v1/heatmap     /v1/quote
#
# Your model framework does not need to know how the data is sourced.
# It only needs a clear tool schema and the structured JSON result.

Market Summary Response

The /v1/summary endpoint returns a pre-computed, rule-based bias score and a plain-English summary — ready to pass directly into your LLM's system context.

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "symbol": "EURUSD",
    "timeframe": "H1",
    "bias": "bullish",
    "bias_strength": "strong",
    "confidence": 0.82,
    "trend_score": 2.4,
    "momentum_score": 1.8,
    "volatility_score": 3.1,
    "signals": { "trend": "bullish", "momentum": "bullish",
                 "volatility": "neutral", "volume": "neutral" },
    "key_levels": { "resistance": [1.0860], "support": [1.0820] },
    "bullish_signals": ["Price above SMA_50", "MACD histogram positive"],
    "bearish_signals": [],
    "neutral_signals": ["RSI_14 in mid-range"],
    "summary": "EURUSD is above its 20-period average with MACD histogram expanding.",
    "recommendations": ["Trend-following entries favoured while price holds above support"],
    "updated_at": 1711548000
  }
}

Full Agent Pattern

Tool-use loop: the LLM decides which TickAtlas endpoint to call, you execute the HTTP request, feed the JSON back as a tool_result, repeat until the agent has enough context to answer.

import anthropic, requests

client = anthropic.Anthropic()
KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

TOOLS = [{
  "name": "get_summary",
  "description": "Live rule-based market bias + summary text for a symbol/timeframe.",
  "input_schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "symbol":    {"type": "string"},
      "timeframe": {"type": "string"},
    },
    "required": ["symbol", "timeframe"],
  },
}]

def run_tool(name, args):
    if name == "get_summary":
        return requests.get(
            "https://tickatlas.com/v1/summary",
            headers={"X-API-Key": KEY},
            params=args,
        ).json()
    return {"error": "unknown tool"}

msgs = [{"role": "user", "content": "Analyze XAUUSD on H4."}]
while True:
    r = client.messages.create(
        model="claude-sonnet-4-6",
        max_tokens=1024,
        tools=TOOLS,
        messages=msgs,
    )
    if r.stop_reason != "tool_use":
        print(r.content[0].text)
        break
    block = next(b for b in r.content if b.type == "tool_use")
    result = run_tool(block.name, block.input)
    msgs += [
        {"role": "assistant", "content": r.content},
        {"role": "user", "content": [{
            "type": "tool_result",
            "tool_use_id": block.id,
            "content": str(result),
        }]},
    ]
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What people build

Agents are useful long before they are allowed to take actions.

The highest-value patterns often start with research, monitoring and structured decision support — where live context matters, but execution stays human-controlled or policy-gated.

01

Market research assistant

Answer natural-language questions by calling live quote, indicator and summary tools before responding.

Best for: analyst workspaces, internal copilots, client-facing research tools.
02

Scheduled market brief

Run a morning or hourly job, fetch market context, and let the model turn structured data into a concise report.

Best for: newsletters, dashboards, Slack or Discord updates.
03

Event-aware agent

Combine indicator state with the economic calendar so the agent can surface high-impact releases near the analysis window.

Best for: macro-aware alerts, risk dashboards, pre-event checklists.
04

Screener → analyst loop

Let the screener narrow the market first, then ask the LLM to inspect only the symbols that meet deterministic conditions.

Best for: reducing API fan-out and model-token waste.
05

Currency-selection assistant

Feed heatmap context into an FX-focused agent so it can discuss stronger and weaker currencies alongside pair-level indicators.

Best for: FX dashboards, pair-ranking workflows, research automation.
06

Human-in-the-loop workflow

Have the agent summarize the data and produce a rationale, then require explicit human approval before any separate execution system is invoked.

Best for: keeping analysis flexible while actions stay controlled.
Production guardrails

Ground the model — then constrain the actions.

Tool access improves data quality, but it does not replace deterministic controls. The model should be one component in a system that validates freshness, permissions, risk and execution policy independently.

Design principle: Let the LLM decide what context to request and how to explain it. Keep irreversible actions behind code you can test, log and explicitly authorize.

Allow-list tools

Expose only the endpoints and parameters the agent actually needs for the task.

Validate freshness and schema

Check timestamps, required fields and error responses before market data enters the model context.

Separate analysis from execution

Keep broker permissions, position sizing and order creation behind a distinct policy layer.

Log the full trace

Store user request, tool calls, API responses, model output and final action separately for easier debugging.

Plug into any stack

  • ChatGPT Custom GPTs
  • Claude Tools
  • Python / pandas
  • Node.js
  • Discord bots
  • Slack webhooks
  • n8n
  • Zapier
  • Google Sheets
Frequently asked questions

What developers ask first.

Straight answers on limits, coverage and how the endpoint behaves in production.

Does TickAtlas run the AI model for me?

No. TickAtlas is the market-data and computed-context layer. You can use OpenAI, Anthropic, another hosted model, or your own local model. Your application registers the endpoints as tools and passes the returned JSON into the model loop.

Can the agent call more than one endpoint?

Yes. A single workflow can expose separate tools for quotes, indicators, summary, screener, calendar, heatmap and other endpoints. The model can call only the tools needed for the current question, which keeps the context smaller and the data provenance clearer.

Does TickAtlas execute trades?

No. TickAtlas provides market data, analytics and developer APIs. If your application later connects to a broker, keep that execution layer separate so permissions, risk rules and human approval can be controlled independently.

Can I use this with ChatGPT or Claude today?

Yes. There are dedicated guides for ChatGPT/OpenAI and Claude tool use. Because the core API is REST with X-API-Key authentication, the same pattern also works with other model frameworks that support HTTP-backed tools.

How should I test an agent before paying for a monthly plan?

Create an account and use the $2.50 pay-as-you-go credit that new accounts start with. Test the exact tool calls your agent needs, verify the schemas and error behavior, and only then choose the monthly plan that matches your request volume.

Turn model reasoning into a grounded workflow

Give your agent tools, not assumptions.

Start with real API calls, connect the endpoints your agent actually needs, and keep market data, reasoning and execution cleanly separated as the workflow grows.

Every new account starts with $2.50 of pay-as-you-go credit. No card required.