Automations need the Trader plan or above, and Agent nodes spend from your monthly agent-run allowance — 50 a month on Trader, 500 on Quant. See usage limits.
What happens when the trigger fires
The signals go true, Tradion pulls the data the agent needs, and the agent reads it and writes up what it found. Only then do notifications go out, so every channel carries the finished analysis rather than a bare alert followed by a second message. Most agents finish inside five minutes; the Market Brief agent is given up to twelve.In plain English
Attaching an agent buys you context and costs you speed. The alert now waits for the research, so it lands minutes after the trigger rather than seconds after it. Too slow for a scalp entry. Fine for a swing setup, a news event, or an earnings run-up.The agents you can add
Six types sit behind the + Agent toolbar button, and each can be added once — so six agent nodes is the practical ceiling on one canvas. They run in sequence, analysts first and the Report Writer last, with an order badge on each node.
The Report Writer is the only one that reads other agents’ output rather than raw data. Add it when you have two or more analysts on the canvas and want a single coherent note instead of three separate blocks.
What the agent can look at
There are 24 research tools, and every one of them is read-only. No tool can place, change, or cancel an order. What the agent can reach:- Filings — company reports filed with the SEC: annual (10-K), quarterly (10-Q), and event (8-K), searchable down to individual sections
- Earnings call transcripts — what management said, and how it read
- News and news sentiment — the article feed plus a scored read of its tone
- Fundamentals — revenue, margins, cash flow, balance sheet, analyst estimates
- Insider activity — Form 4 filings, the disclosures company insiders must make within two business days of trading their own stock
- Corporate actions — dividends, splits, mergers, spin-offs
- Social sentiment — Reddit trading communities, read for the bullish/bearish balance
- Web search — press releases, analyst commentary, anything public not in the feeds above
- Options chain — the live contracts on the name, including open interest, the number of contracts currently held open by somebody
- Technical indicators and price history — bars, snapshots, and the readings calculated on top of them
Configuring a Research Agent
What comes back
Every agent returns the same shape, whatever its type:- A direction — bullish, bearish, or neutral
- A conviction score from 1 to 10
- A one-sentence summary, under 25 words
- Sections of dense bullet points, each bullet one fact
- Exactly three key risks
What it costs, and how to not waste it
One agent run per agent, per fire. Three analysts on a canvas is three runs every time that automation triggers. The Report Writer is the exception — it synthesises what is already there and consumes nothing. Runs are refunded when an agent fails or times out. There are also burst limits of 20 runs an hour and 100 a day across your whole account. If the allowance runs out mid-month, the automation keeps firing and keeps notifying you — the alert arrives without the analysis, and the run is marked degraded or failed in the Runs tab. Allowances reset at your billing date.Reading the results
Agent output arrives in two places: inside the notification, and on the run’s detail page under Automations → Runs. The detail page is the fuller version — see runs and history.Which model runs
The Chart Analyst always runs on Sonnet, whatever your plan, because it is the model that reads images. Model detail: AI models.
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Notification channels
Where the brief gets delivered, and how to word it.
Runs and history
Read what each agent did, step by step.