Trading with AI: The OpenPond Method

At OpenPond, we think AI has fundamentally changed how traders and investors should approach markets, but probably not in the way you expect. LLMs make it much easier for anyone, even without prior coding experience, to write software and access near-infinite amounts of information. In 2026, that means there is very little reason to manually trade without some form of AI support.

OpenPond is built to let you adopt AI gradually. The goal is progressive adoption of AI and automation helping to move you towards a setup that adapts to your preferences, takes trades and responds to market conditions for you.

Review and Generate Trade Quick Agents (lvl 1)

When you first enter OpenPond, we give you an agent called "My OpenPond." This agent sits in front of every trade you take. It assesses the market and your past performance in real time, helps you avoid obvious mistakes, and sends daily email updates about the market and your prior day's performance. It's accessible via the Review Trade and Generate Trade buttons on our Trade Page.

Try it out via the Trade page right under the Buy/Sell button

We call this a "Template Agent" because it is an open-source agent that gets copied directly into your account. All agents in OpenPond are built on our secure open-source sandbox environment, OpenTool. That means you have full autonomy to inspect and update the code however you want, while your agent has scoped access to your operating funds.

Do you want the agent to be more or less aggressive? Do you want it to alert you if you try to take a trade on Sunday, when liquidity is thin and you should probably be touching grass? You can chat with the model, update the two agents automatically, and redeploy it right away.

End GoalYou have a basic agent that you can chat with that understands your trading style.

Edit With AI (lvl 2)

Once you are comfortable updating your My OpenPond Agent, you can start asking OpenPond AI about your trade performance, where you can improve, and what patterns it sees. Maybe you tell it that you trade RSI setups or that you only want to trade during New York hours. OpenPond AI can then start recommending strategies you can implement so more of that work runs automatically.

Our Edit with AI feature

This is what we call progressive adoption: gradually moving more of your trading style into autonomous agents. That can mean multiple agents running different strategies on different assets, or one larger strategy that more closely mimics how you trade. Over time, you realize you can do much more with a team of agents than with a single discretionary workflow.

End GoalYou have your My Openpond Agent running and you have 1-2 agents running autonomously taking a portion of your trading decisions.

Openpond AI Max (lvl 3)

Every part of the trading strategy development process is surfaced to you, the end user. Developers will recognize our Vercel style system of development, Opentool being our take on a Crypto version of NextJs and Openpond as the platform. You can connect your own codex agent via the CLI, queue up deployments, run backtests, add in your own environment variables right from our UI. Each strategy is at its core a serverless function with scoped access to your operating wallet.

Want to take a directional trade four weeks from now after an FOMC meeting, but stay delta neutral until then while farming Hyperliquid funding and watching the Polymarket Fed rates market for an arbitrage opportunity? That is the kind of workflow OpenPond is meant to support. You can launch long-dated agents for long-term trades, agents for a one-off trade idea, or agents that run on a schedule to review your other agents and make adjustments.

Using our Openpond AI Max system - test the limits of our model by giving it your toughest strategies and hammer away at it until your comfortable with the strategy For instance, we use codex internally connected to the Openpond CLI and loop and test strategies until we come up with profitable backtestested strategies.

Note: This method is for advanced users and caution must be taken, the model is very powerful but ultimately the strategy is yours to create.

End GoalYou have a growing set of agents running autonomously and are adopting our set of tools to help you refine, backtest and deploy your trading.

The OpenPond Method

The OpenPond Method is our view of how traders should level up in 2026 with AI. We do not believe in gimmicky trading assistants or one-off dashboard helpers. OpenPond was built by traders for traders to support the full trading workflow, augmented and enhanced by AI.

This level of automation should not be reserved for a small number of large trading firms. We want to put that power directly in your hands so you have a fighting chance in a changing world.

Dive in, take the time to master OpenPond, and you will be better off for it.