Algorithmic Trading.
Automation is where a trading mobile app for forex and exchange market operations stops needing you at the screen.
Automated trading using specialized applications — trading robots — that operate without the participation of the trader.
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Algorithmic Trading in Short.
Automation is the point at which a trading mobile app stops needing you present for operations in the Forex and exchange markets to continue. Algorithmic trading means using specialised applications — trading robots — that analyse quotes and perform trading operations following an algorithm, without the trader in the loop at all.
The appeal is obvious and the requirement is strict. A robot can only trade rules, so the first question is whether your strategy is genuinely rule-based. If you can write down exactly what makes you enter, how much you risk, where the stop sits and what makes you exit, that can be automated. If the answer involves reading the situation in the moment, a robot will reproduce the mechanics and lose the judgement that made the method work.
Trade Master 9 supports both paths into automation. If you have a working strategy, the platform provides a full development environment for building and optimising your own robot, leaving routine market analysis and order placement to the machine. If programming holds no appeal, thousands of ready-made applications are available in the free tools library and the app library, and custom work can be ordered through the custom development service.
What separates a useful robot from an expensive one is testing. Historical testing shows how a set of rules behaved in conditions you have not lived through, and a spell on a demo account shows how it behaves in live spreads and real execution. Both come before the first live lot. The page on trading robots goes further, and the home page covers the wider app.
When the Algorithm Runs Without You.
Real TM9 2.0 screens for checking on a robot that runs without you: open positions, live quotes, and balance, equity and margin.
Trading Without the Trader.
Automate your Forex strategy with TM9 trading robots: applications that analyse quotes and trade without you present, with historical testing before you go live.
What a robot does
Trading robots analyze quotes and perform trading operations following an underlying algorithm, without the participation of the trader.
Robotize a strategy
If you have a successful trading strategy, you can automate it and leave routine market analysis and trading to the platform.
Or use a ready-made one
If you are not enthusiastic about programming, choose from thousands of ready-to-use trading applications from the free tools library, the TM9 App Library, or the custom development service.
Which Strategies Can Be Automated.
Three notes on the test a strategy has to pass before a robot can run it.
Which trading strategies suit automation best?
Automation rewards strategies with clear rules. If you can write down exactly what makes you enter, size and exit, that can be coded; if the decision relies on judgement in the moment, a robot will not reproduce it.
Why test a robot before trading it live?
A robot does what it was told, including in conditions its author never considered. Testing on historical data and running on a demo account first are the two steps that separate a working system from an expensive lesson.
Who should consider algorithmic trading?
This page is for traders with a rules-based method, and for anyone who cannot watch the market during the hours their strategy needs.
Where This Overview Leads.
Robots, the libraries and custom work each have their own page from here.
Rules can be automated, judgement cannot
The question that decides everything is whether your method is genuinely rule-based. If you can state exactly what makes you enter, how much you risk, where the stop sits and what makes you exit, that can be handed over. If the answer involves reading the situation in the moment, a robot reproduces the mechanics and loses the part that made the method work.
Good to know
TM9 is a software development company and does not provide investment or brokerage services for Algorithmic Trading users.. The platform supplies the trading terminals, analysis tools and automation; your broker holds the funds, sets spreads and leverage, and executes the orders the platform sends. Trading carries a real risk of loss, and signals or robots are tools rather than financial advice.
Read next
Build or choose a robot in Trading Robots, browse ready-made ones in the TM9 App Library, or return to the top of Algorithmic Trading. Every one of the 77 pages is in the Platform Guide.
Follow the Whole Story.
Each step builds on the one before it, from the app itself through to automation.
Forex Tools and Automation
Automation starts here, on the first guide in this category; the forex guide hub covers all 33 forex guides.
More Pages to Read.
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