Many retail investors have now begun to participate in algo trading, which was available only to institutional investors till a few years ago.
The quant (the person who creates the algorithm or algo) studies historical data to come up with certain trading rules that he believes will make money. He then builds the algo, software that has those rules coded in, which then scans the market. Whenever the conditions that have been coded are met, it generates buy and sell signals.
To access this, traders have to enroll on platforms that offer algo trading strategies, like Rain Technologies, Tradetron, Squareoff, AlgoBulls. The trader also needs to enroll with a broking firm that offers API (application programming interface) integration. An API gathers the signals generated by the trading platform and executes them in the trader’s broking account. Zerodha, Fyers, Upstox, Samco, 5paisa, among others offer API integration.
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