Signals Network — Trading Algorithms For Everyone

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For the past decade, exchange have been dominated by algorithmic and/or high-frequency trading strategies that are able to make instantaneous trading decisions based on data science techniques. A human trader has very little chance of beating a sophisticated trading <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/algorithm" target="_blank">algorithm</a> for short-term trading, and thus, retail investors are being pushed further and further away from short-term trading. As machine learning techniques for processing time-series data continue to grow in sophistication, the market grows increasingly powered by trading bots. This is not inherently a bad thing, but since the average investor has no access to such techniques and is not statistics-savvy enough to create their own, it further exacerbates the issues retail investors face.