Coil blog https://coil.trade/blog/ 2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00 Can an AI Agent Manage My Portfolio?https://coil.trade/blog/can-an-ai-agent-manage-my-portfolio2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Should an AI agent manage your portfolio? Why improvised trading fails, why rule execution is different, and the questions to ask any tool. MCP Explained for Tradershttps://coil.trade/blog/mcp-explained-for-traders2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00What the Model Context Protocol is, what a broker MCP server exposes, why it beats screen-scraping and pasted API keys, and what agents still cannot do. Robinhood's 70,000 Agentic Accounts, in Contexthttps://coil.trade/blog/robinhood-70000-agentic-accounts2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Robinhood says roughly 70,000 accounts have enabled agentic trading, well under 1 percent of its funded base. What that tells us about the era ahead. Scheduled AI Agents: Software on a Cadencehttps://coil.trade/blog/scheduled-ai-agents2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Agent scheduling lets trading software run on a cadence inside your AI agent instead of a server you maintain. What it enables, and what to demand. What Is Agentic Trading? A Plain Explainerhttps://coil.trade/blog/what-is-agentic-trading2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00What agentic trading is, how it differs from robo-advisors and classic bots, and what a safe setup looks like. A plain explainer for 2026. Can AI Agents Buy Software Yet?https://coil.trade/blog/ai-agents-with-purchasing-power2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00How AI agents find and buy software in 2026: llms.txt, machine-readable manifests, and the checkout step that still needs a human. Self-Custody Trading Software: Keep Your Keyshttps://coil.trade/blog/self-custody-trading-software2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00What self-custody means for trading tools: why broker API keys should stay on your machine, the threat model of hosted platforms, and what to check first. The Agent Economy: When Software Buys Softwarehttps://coil.trade/blog/the-agent-economy2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00AI agents are starting to discover, compare, and buy on our behalf. What that changes for builders and buyers, and where a one-time $29 tool fits. What Makes Software Agent-Nativehttps://coil.trade/blog/agent-native-software2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Agent-native software ships machine-readable docs, manifests, deterministic CLIs, and verifiable claims. Here is what that looks like in practice. Buy Pullbacks, Not Breakoutshttps://coil.trade/blog/buy-pullbacks-not-breakouts2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Why disciplined systems buy leaders on pullbacks to real support instead of chasing breakouts. Entry price defines risk and structure gives a close stop. Cash Is a Positionhttps://coil.trade/blog/cash-is-a-position2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Cash is an allocation, not the absence of an opinion. Why systems that must always be invested degrade, and why long-only ones need permission to sit out. How to Read a Backtest Before You Trust Ithttps://coil.trade/blog/how-to-read-a-backtest2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00A vetting guide for backtests: survivorship bias, fill assumptions, cost modeling, inflated t-stats, and the exact questions to ask any vendor. Leadership Rotation, Explainedhttps://coil.trade/blog/leadership-rotation-explained2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Market leadership rotates. Why last cycle's winners go stale, how relative strength ranks the new leaders, and why cash is a valid answer. Regime Concentration: Where Edge Actually Liveshttps://coil.trade/blog/regime-concentration2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Most strategies earn their edge in specific regimes and roughly match markets elsewhere. Why vendors hide this and how to ask when a system fails. Relative Strength vs Momentum: The Real Differencehttps://coil.trade/blog/relative-strength-vs-momentum2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Momentum measures a stock's own trend. Relative strength ranks it against every peer. Why the difference matters and how a scanner uses both. Sector Rotation: A Practical Guidehttps://coil.trade/blog/sector-rotation-guide2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00How money rotates between sectors, how it shows up in relative strength before headlines, and why rotation informs entries but never dictates them. Structural Stops vs ATR Stops, Explainedhttps://coil.trade/blog/structural-stops-explained2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Why stops placed at the price where the thesis fails beat volatility-multiple stops, how wide stops interact with sizing, and why no stop is a guarantee. Survivorship Bias in Backtests, Explainedhttps://coil.trade/blog/survivorship-bias-explained2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Testing today's index members backward quietly deletes every stock that died. How survivorship bias inflates backtests and how to fix it. Why Long-Only Is a Feature, Not a Limitationhttps://coil.trade/blog/why-long-only2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Shorting doubles the ways to be wrong and inverse ETFs decay on multi-day holds. Why Coil trades long-only, and what that choice honestly costs. Leverage as an Accelerant, Not a Defaulthttps://coil.trade/blog/leverage-as-accelerant2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Leverage works as a deliberate accelerant on high-conviction setups at reduced size, not a standing default. How Coil treats leveraged ETFs. Leveraged ETF Gap Risk: When Stops Don't Firehttps://coil.trade/blog/leveraged-etf-gap-risk2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Overnight gaps skip stop losses. A 3x fund turns an index gap into roughly triple the damage at the open. How to score gap risk before entry, not after. NVDL vs NVDA: What 2x Daily Really Meanshttps://coil.trade/blog/nvdl-vs-nvda2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00NVDL targets 2x NVDA's daily return, not 2x the stock. How daily reset and compounding drift change multi-day holds, and when a system uses 2x. Single-Stock Leveraged ETFs: A 2026 Field Guidehttps://coil.trade/blog/single-stock-leveraged-etfs2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00A 2026 guide to single-stock leveraged ETFs: how they differ from index leveraged funds, why decay and gap risk bite harder, and who they suit. TQQQ vs QQQ: The Long-Term Mathhttps://coil.trade/blog/tqqq-vs-qqq2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00TQQQ promises 3x the Nasdaq-100 per day, not per year. Plain-words math on daily resets, volatility decay in chop, gap risk, and holding-period honesty. AI Job Displacement and Market Leadershiphttps://coil.trade/blog/ai-job-displacement-markets2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Automation waves reshape market leadership. Where earnings power migrates when AI changes work, and how rotation frameworks track it without forecasts. AI Trading Scams: 9 Red Flags to Check Firsthttps://coil.trade/blog/ai-trading-scam-red-flags2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Nine red flags to check before paying for any AI trading product: guaranteed returns, income promises, hidden risk, unverifiable track records and more. The Trading Bot Passive Income Mythhttps://coil.trade/blog/trading-bots-passive-income-myth2026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00Why passive income from a trading bot is a myth: adversarial markets, regime-dependent edges, overnight drawdowns, taxes, and what a bot honestly is. UBI and AI in 2026: Where the Debate Standshttps://coil.trade/blog/ubi-and-ai-20262026-07-10T12:00:00-07:00The UBI debate as AI displaces work: arguments for and against, what pilots suggest, and why people reach for ownership while policy stalls.