# High Frequency Trading and Lessons for Agentic AI

DevFeed: [High Frequency Trading and Lessons for Agentic AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/high-frequency-trading-and-lessons-for-agentic-ai-39490.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.philvenables.com/post/high-frequency-trading-and-lessons-for-agentic-ai>)

Author: Phil Venables

Published: 2026-05-02T12:45:05Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Risk and Cyber](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/risk-and-cyber.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI Strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-strategy.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>)

Tags: [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [automated](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automated.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarking.md>), [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [financial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/financial.md>), [guardrails](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guardrails.md>), [risk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/risk.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that lessons from high-frequency and algorithmic trading controls can inform deterministic guardrails for mostly non-deterministic agentic AI systems as they evolve from chatbots into systems that act. It also argues that benchmarking should focus on outcomes such as control effectiveness rather than input budgets alone.

## Source excerpt

I suspect I'm not the only former or current financial markets technologist that sees parallels between the world of high frequency / algorithmic trading controls and what is needed for appropriate deterministic guardrails around our, mostly, non-deterministic agentic AI systems. As we transition from chatbots to systems of agents, that don't just talk but act, we are entering a regime of automated risk that the financial markets have navigated, mostly successfully, for decades....