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AutoRedTrader: Autonomous Red Teaming of Trading Agents through Synthetic Misinformation Injection

Zhiwei Liu , Yangyang Yu , Yupeng Cao , Yuechen Jiang , Haohang Li , Zhuoran Lu , Yuyan Wang , Yixiang Zheng
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Xiaorui Guo Calvin Yixiang Cheng Sophia Ananiadou
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keywords red teamingLLM financial agentsmisinformation generationtrading agentsautonomous attacksPOMDP simulationBitcoin databias manipulation
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The pith

AutoRedTrader generates finance-specific misinformation via bias manipulation and agent feedback to attack LLM trading agents more effectively than general methods.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces an autonomous red-teaming framework called AutoRedTrader that creates subtle textual misinformation tailored to financial agents. It does this through behavioral bias manipulation, minor perturbations, rewriting strategies, and iterative feedback from the agents themselves. This matters because LLM-based trading agents combine numerical data with textual signals, and subtle changes can shift their reasoning and decisions without obvious errors. The work evaluates the approach in a simulated POMDP environment on Bitcoin data, showing higher rates of misinformation exposure and attack success than baselines, while also testing whether time-series market evidence helps agents resist the attacks.

Core claim

AutoRedTrader is an autonomous red-teaming framework that generates finance-specific misinformation through behavioral bias manipulation, minor textual perturbations, and rewriting strategies, with agent feedback used to strengthen attacks over time. Evaluated in a POMDP-based financial agent simulation environment and a time-series-informed grounding setting on Bitcoin transaction data, it achieves 69.00% misinformation exposure rate and 26.67% attack success rate, outperforming general-purpose misinformation and red-teaming baselines. Ablation studies confirm that all modules contribute to generating retrievable and decision-effective financial misinformation.

What carries the argument

The AutoRedTrader framework, which iteratively generates and refines finance-specific misinformation using behavioral bias manipulation, textual perturbations, rewriting, and feedback from the target agents to increase exposure and decision impact.

If this is right

  • Subtle textual misinformation can significantly alter agent reasoning and trading decisions even when it does not contain explicit falsehoods.
  • Time-series market evidence can be tested as a stabilizing factor that helps agents resist misleading textual signals.
  • Systematic red-teaming enables evaluation of how misinformation affects financial agents and which components drive effectiveness.
  • All framework modules are necessary for producing misinformation that is both retrievable by agents and influential on their decisions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Real-world LLM trading agents may prove vulnerable to similarly crafted textual inputs when operating without the controlled simulation constraints.
  • This style of autonomous attack generation could be adapted to probe robustness in other AI agent domains that combine text with sequential decision-making.
  • Developers of financial agents would benefit from incorporating comparable red-teaming loops during training or deployment to harden against textual perturbations.
  • The results highlight a need for defenses that detect minor perturbations rather than relying solely on factual accuracy checks in high-stakes trading settings.

Load-bearing premise

The POMDP-based financial agent simulation environment and the time-series-informed grounding setting accurately reflect how real LLM trading agents would respond to subtle textual misinformation in live markets.

What would settle it

Running the generated misinformation against actual deployed LLM trading agents operating on live market feeds and checking whether exposure and success rates match the 69% and 26.67% figures from the Bitcoin simulation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.09185 by Calvin Yixiang Cheng, Haohang Li, Sophia Ananiadou, Xiaorui Guo, Yangyang Yu, Yixiang Zheng, Yuechen Jiang, Yupeng Cao, Yuyan Wang, Zhiwei Liu, Zhuoran Lu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustrations of AutoRedTrader. Let N = {n 1 , n2 , . . .} denote the real-world financial news corpus. The misinformation generation module is controlled by a set of strategies MisGenStrategy = {Bias, M inor, Rewrite}, where Bias specifies the behavioral bias to be induced, M inor controls subtle textual perturbations, and Rewrite change the writing style. Given N , CR, and HistoryEffect, the MisGen modul… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Prompt for reversing market implications in financial news. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Prompt for numerical perturbation in financial news. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Prompt for controlled sentiment adjustment in financial news. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Prompt for causal perturbation in financial news. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Prompt for temporal mismatch perturbation in financial news. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Prompt for concept shift perturbation in financial news. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Prompt for entity mismatch perturbation in financial news. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Prompt for credibility enhancement in financial news. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_9.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

LLM-based financial agents increasingly rely on both numerical market data and textual signals for sequential trading and stock prediction. However, financial misinformation often appears as subtle textual perturbations rather than explicit falsehoods, making it difficult to detect while still capable of significantly altering agent reasoning and decisions. To study this risk, we propose AutoRedTrader, an autonomous red-teaming framework that generates finance-specific misinformation through behavioral bias manipulation, minor textual perturbations, and rewriting strategies, with agent feedback used to strengthen attacks over time. We evaluate AutoRedTrader in a POMDP-based financial agent simulation environment, and further examine a time-series-informed grounding setting for robustness analysis. The framework enables systematic evaluation of how subtle misinformation affects financial agents and whether historical market evidence can stabilize decisions under misleading textual signals. We evaluate the framework on Bitcoin transaction data. The results show that AutoRedTrader achieves the strongest attack performance with 69.00% misinformation exposure rate and 26.67% attack success rate, outperforming general-purpose misinformation and red-teaming baselines. Ablation studies further show that all modules contribute to generating retrievable and decision-effective financial misinformation.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes AutoRedTrader, an autonomous red-teaming framework that generates finance-specific synthetic misinformation via behavioral bias manipulation, minor textual perturbations, and rewriting strategies, iteratively refined using agent feedback. It evaluates the approach inside a POMDP-based financial agent simulation environment (with an additional time-series-informed grounding setting) on Bitcoin transaction data, claiming a 69.00% misinformation exposure rate and 26.67% attack success rate that outperforms general-purpose misinformation and red-teaming baselines. Ablation studies are stated to confirm that all modules contribute to generating retrievable and decision-effective misinformation.

Significance. If the POMDP simulation and its observation model prove representative of real LLM trading agents operating on live market feeds, the work would be significant for quantifying risks from subtle textual misinformation in sequential financial decision-making and for providing a feedback-driven method to generate targeted attacks. The structured use of POMDP for modeling partial observability and the inclusion of time-series grounding for robustness testing are constructive elements that could support more realistic evaluations than purely static benchmarks.

major comments (4)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The headline performance numbers (69.00% misinformation exposure rate and 26.67% attack success rate) and the claim of strongest attack performance are presented without any description of the POMDP agent's architecture, reward function, state-transition model, observation function, or the exact mechanism by which textual misinformation is injected into the agent's inputs. These omissions make the empirical margins over baselines unverifiable and prevent assessment of whether the results are simulation artifacts rather than general properties of the red-teaming method.
  2. [Evaluation] Evaluation: No information is supplied on the number of independent trials, statistical significance tests, variance across runs, or data exclusion rules for the Bitcoin experiments. Without these, the reported rates cannot be interpreted as robust evidence of outperformance.
  3. [Methods] Methods: The baselines (general-purpose misinformation and red-teaming methods) are referenced only by category; no implementation details, parameter settings, or justification for their selection as controls are given, rendering the comparative claim impossible to reproduce or critique.
  4. [Ablation studies] Ablation studies: The statement that 'all modules contribute' is made, yet no quantitative ablation results, tables, or per-component metrics (e.g., performance drop when bias manipulation or rewriting is removed) are provided, so the contribution of each module cannot be evaluated.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The acronym POMDP is introduced without expansion, which reduces accessibility for readers outside reinforcement learning.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The term 'time-series-informed grounding setting' is used without a concise definition or pointer to its implementation, leaving its distinction from the base POMDP unclear.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our work. The comments identify important areas for improving the clarity, reproducibility, and verifiability of our results. We will revise the manuscript to address each point as detailed below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The headline performance numbers (69.00% misinformation exposure rate and 26.67% attack success rate) and the claim of strongest attack performance are presented without any description of the POMDP agent's architecture, reward function, state-transition model, observation function, or the exact mechanism by which textual misinformation is injected into the agent's inputs. These omissions make the empirical margins over baselines unverifiable and prevent assessment of whether the results are simulation artifacts rather than general properties of the red-teaming method.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from additional context on the simulation setup. In the revision, we will add a brief description of the POMDP agent's architecture, reward function, state-transition and observation models, and the misinformation injection mechanism to the abstract, while keeping it concise. We will also ensure the Methods section explicitly details these elements to make the performance claims verifiable. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Evaluation] No information is supplied on the number of independent trials, statistical significance tests, variance across runs, or data exclusion rules for the Bitcoin experiments. Without these, the reported rates cannot be interpreted as robust evidence of outperformance.

    Authors: We will update the Evaluation section to report the number of independent trials, include measures of variance across runs, present results from statistical significance tests, and specify data exclusion rules used in the Bitcoin experiments. This will provide the necessary context to interpret the robustness of our findings. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Methods] The baselines (general-purpose misinformation and red-teaming methods) are referenced only by category; no implementation details, parameter settings, or justification for their selection as controls are given, rendering the comparative claim impossible to reproduce or critique.

    Authors: We will expand the Methods section to include specific implementation details, parameter settings, and justifications for selecting the general-purpose misinformation and red-teaming baselines. This will facilitate reproduction and allow for a more thorough critique of the comparative results. revision: yes

  4. Referee: [Ablation studies] The statement that 'all modules contribute' is made, yet no quantitative ablation results, tables, or per-component metrics (e.g., performance drop when bias manipulation or rewriting is removed) are provided, so the contribution of each module cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We will add a quantitative ablation study section with a table presenting per-component metrics, including performance changes when modules such as bias manipulation or rewriting are removed. This will clearly demonstrate the contribution of each module to the overall results. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical evaluation is self-contained

full rationale

The paper proposes the AutoRedTrader framework for generating finance-specific misinformation via bias manipulation and perturbations, then reports direct empirical measurements (misinformation exposure rate and attack success rate) from a POMDP simulation on Bitcoin data, with comparisons to baselines and ablation studies. These metrics are defined as observable outcomes of the simulation rather than being fitted parameters or self-referential quantities. No equations or derivations are presented that reduce the central claims to inputs by construction, and the evaluation chain (method + simulation testing) does not rely on load-bearing self-citations or uniqueness theorems imported from prior author work. This is a standard empirical setup with independent content.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the framework is presented at a conceptual level without mathematical derivations or postulated constructs.

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