Markets with AI · Materials prepared with support from AI · Updated 3 October 2026 · Method and limits.
The name of the asset does not define the product
"Analyzing gold" does not say if you study a reference price, a fund, a futures contract or another product. "Analyzing an index" doesn't determine the exposure. Before calculating a loss or comparing a series, identify what instrument you are studying.
The AI starts with an information sheet: asset, product, symbol, source, currency, time frame and available data. That's what's missing from the documentation. To demand a formula without units can produce an apparently precise number that does not represent the position.
What changes according to market
| Market | What to identify | Sources to be provided | Distinctive check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stocks | Issuer, symbol, market, currency and whether they are shares or a derivative. | Issuer's information and communications and price series documentation. | Quantities, costs and treatment of corporate events. |
| Rhiptomoneda | Pair, source platform and cash or derivative product. | Project documentation and product and supplier specifications. | Units, currency and declared costs of the product. |
| Forex | Orden pair, instrument, size and coin of account. | Specifications of the supplier and source of contributions. | Value of movement, currency conversion and costs where applicable. |
| Indices | The reference and product ratio representing the exposure. | Methodology of the FTT index and conditions, future or other product used. | A shown index does not by itself identify a negotiated instrument. |
| Raw materials | Subsistence, instrument and contract or maturity as appropriate. | Product or contract specifications. | Applicable size, multiplier, tick, maturity and clearance. |
Two positions with similar drawings and different risks
First case invented: 10 units of a linear product per unit, an adverse movement of €0,50 per unit and total costs €2. The expected loss under exact run is 10 × 0,50 + 2 = 7 €.
Second case invented: two linear contracts, eight adverse movement tiks, value of each tik 1,25 €per contract and total costs 3 €. The expected loss is 2 × 8 × 1,25 + 3 = €23. None of these cases represent an actual product's specifications.
Can't move from first to second with "10 units" without defining what a unit means. The required margin is another magnitude and does not come from these losses alone.
Propt to adapt analysis to an asset
First order product description
That's what I'm talking about. That's what I mean. That page doesn't check a model automatically.
How to check an intermarket response
He looks for four types of mix: data from a different product, currency that changes without conversion, units without multiplier and costs treated as zero because they were not supplied. Check the first mathematical operation with the written units. If you can't explain what every factor measures, information lacks.
It also preserves dates and frequencies. A price of a session doesn't describe a later news and a weekly series doesn't reveal a minute-to-minute tour. To compare assets demand the same table format, but do not impose economic assumptions that only belong to one.
Exercise: Can you figure out a loss in the future with just the difference between input and stop?
Not a complete money loss. You need a number of contracts, multiplier or movement value, currency and costs. The specifications have to come from the specific contract.
A Learning Course for Each Tasks
If you want to describe a graph, use the analysis guide and give a table if you need accuracy. To turn an idea into a test, work with backtesting protocol. To review his execution, start with his paper. The three tasks can be applied to different markets as long as you adapt data and product.
The sources of this guide help to understand general categories and requirements. The actual conditions should be verified in the instrument's existing documentation. The CFTC and SEC pages belong to their U.S. level and are not used here to assign legal rules to Spain.
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Sources to check
- Inespres.gov: actions and sources of the issuer
- CFTC: Questions about forex, American range
- CMI Group: contract specifications
- ESMA: limits to using AI in investments
The examples are computed with fictitious data. The sources do not support a sign or a performance result of these exercises.
