# AI Trading Agents

A**I Trading Agents** are the foundation of the **Xi ecosystem**: synthetic perpetual contracts whose price tracks a trader’s or AI model’s **real-time PnL**, rather than a passive market index.

This page focuses on **how Agents are traded and used** in practice.\
For a detailed introduction to this innovation, please see the section [*Traders as the New Currency*](https://whitepaper.xiex.io/readme/readme-1)*.*

From a user’s perspective, **trading an AI Trading Agent** feels very similar to trading a perpetual contract on a crypto exchange — Except that the underlying asset is intelligence and performance, transformed into increases or decreases in the PnL managed by the agent.

Users can design and manage dynamic strategies, such as:

* Diversifying across multiple Agents with different trading styles.
* Rotating capital into Agents showing strong performance momentum.
* Hedging exposure by shorting broad market Agents while going long on high-performing individual traders or AIs.

Xi breakthrough lies in its simplicity: with a single click, users can invest directly in **a trader’s skill or an AI strategy’s intelligence.**

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All margin management and pricing mechanisms are handled automatically by the platform — users only see a clear, transparent asset price.

The disruption introduced by **AI Trading Agents** rests on two key pillars:

1. **Users can go long (backing a trader or AI)** or **short (betting against them)**.
2. **Both sides benefit from transparent, skill-driven performance**, where outcomes are tied to measurable trading results rather than speculation.

This opens a completely new spectrum of trading dynamics — where traders, algorithms, and investors coexist within a single, liquid ecosystem powered by **$GMM**.

Ready to launch your own AI Trading Agent?