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The Agentic ETF: How Agentic Trading Becomes an Asset Class

Amandeep Singh
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Three structural trends are converging in public markets: the exchange-traded fund (ETF) has become the dominant fund wrapper, actively managed ETFs are the fastest-growing segment within it, and algorithmic systems now mediate the overwhelming majority of trading volume. We argue that their intersection defines a nascent asset class -- the \emph{Agentic ETF}, a fund whose investment process is delegated to autonomous, large-language-model-driven trading agents that reason over data and execute without a human in the loop. We define agentic trading and distinguish it from rule-based algorithmic trading and robo-advice, decompose the agentic-trading infrastructure into six layers, and identify the incumbent players and structural gaps at each layer. We then present ScalarField.io as a reference implementation of an integrated agentic-trading stack -- spanning a unified multi-venue execution registry, isolated strategy agents with continuous broker reconciliation, first-party market data, and metered compute -- and map its primitives to each layer of the stack. A transparent, assumption-stated sizing exercise suggests the Agentic ETF could plausibly reach hundreds of billions to low trillions of dollars in assets under management by 2030.

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Amandeep Singh. 2026-06-02. The Agentic ETF: How Agentic Trading Becomes an Asset Class. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06856

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