Rise Of Automated Trading: Machines Trading S&P 500

Nowadays, more than 60 percent of trading activities with different assets (such as stocks, index futures, commodities) are not made by “human being” traders anymore, instead relying on automated trading. There are specialized programs based on particular algorithms that automatically buy and sell assets over different markets, meant to achieve a positive return in the long run. In this article, I’m going to show you how to predict, with good accuracy, how the next trade should be placed to get a positive gain. For this example, as the underlying asset to trade, I selected the S&P 500 index, the weighted average of 500 US companies with bigger capitalization. A very simple strategy to implement is to buy the S&P 500 index when Wall Street Exchange starts trading, at 9:30 AM,…


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