Algorithmic
Trading.

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, or Expert Advisors — 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 and the MQL5 language 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 Code Base and the Market, and custom work can be ordered through Freelance.

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 pages on Expert Advisors and MQL5 go further into each, and the home page covers the wider app.

See the full app on the home page