Every minute the stock market is open, tens of thousands of transactions occur. Some of them happen when investors hit the buy or sell button. However, a majority of them happen automatically, through ...

Big banks, hedge funds and institutional investors use computer-driven trading algorithms routinely in bull or bear markets. When the stock market turns volatile, algorithmic trading often gets the ...

Independent investors often use the terms "algorithmic trading" and "AI trading" interchangeably, but the two are actually completely different. One isn’t better than the other—in the same way that an ...

With growing client expectations and a constantly developing market landscape, Wesley Bray explores the evolution of algorithmic trading, delving into its use cases, the importance of data and trader ...

On 26 February 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a new Supervisory Briefing on Algorithmic Trading in the EU. The briefing draws heavily on insights from ESMA’s 2022 ...

Five risk checks for AI trading bots in MT4 and MT5: position size, stop losses, alerts, demo tests and a stop switch, with ...

Algorithmic trading (algo trading for short) uses computer programs to execute trades automatically based on predetermined criteria. These programs enter and exit positions on traders' behalf when ...