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The Automated Forex Trading System: It's A Fact - Faster Execution Means Increased Trade Volumes
By T J
The concept of automated trading system is mind-catching.
Before the automation of the market, exchange-traded futures market was the first to switch on automation. Then, the traders on the Interbank spot FX market decided to catch up with the latest trend and moved too to the new system.
Automated trading system enables traders to execute their trade on spot market automatically and anytime of the day, based on existing technical indicators and custom trading rules. There are various features included in the automated trading system, such as:
- Automatic trailing stops especially if the trader is losing in a particular trade position;
- Account equity management;
- Stop and/or limit orders;
- Discretionary market orders; and
- Various technical analysis indicators within your discretion for enabling trend-following systems.
Automated trading systems supports most of the following indicators (the technical support will depend on the technology used as well as the available features of the system):
- WMA (weighted moving average);
- EMA (exponential moving average);
- SMA (simple moving average);
- VMA (variable moving average);
- TMA (triangular moving average);
- TSMA (time series moving average);
- WATR (wilders average true range);
- VHF (vertical horizontal filter);
- Standard deviation;
- Trailing stops;
- Mass index;
- Fixed limits and stops, and others.
The success of the automation process to the market is attributed to several factors, such as the following:
- Its ability to perform or execute trades in real time. Because of the automation, a trader can close trades within a few milliseconds. It is impossible in manual systems, as previous trades are normally closed after several hours. In addition, there are also instances wherein a trader incurs several losses in a row that prevents him from making any fresh transactions. Thus, with automated trading system, this problem could be avoided.
- Its ability to greater diversification. With automated trading system now in place, a trader can trade in various local as well as international markets within varying time zones. In other words, you can place trade or close deals with different traders from
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various markets around the world even at the middle of the night.
- Its ability to analyze short-term data. This feature is not available in manual trading system. Thus, traders using automated system have the bigger advantage since they can predict market trends in less than an hour.
If you will consolidate the features as well as the benefits of automated trading system, it will give you a solid conclusion: with the market on automation, you will be able to place more trades on a single day, thus increasing the average volume trades daily.
To further clarify the conclusion. Let us take the following scenario: If you are trading using the manual system, you will notice that it takes time before a trader confirms if he will accept your deal or not. He will look on the market condition first as well as the exchange rate of the currencies that you are trading with. Thus, if it takes time before a transaction will be finalized; there would be fewer trade volumes.
Now, if you are using the automated trading system, the evaluation of exchange rates and market conditions could be done within a few minutes, since data are now updated in real time. Probably after less than an hour, you will be able to take your position whether you will push through the deal or not.
If a transaction per trader is averaging within an hour, a single trader can place as much as 8 trades within the regular trading hours (if he is following the day trading schedule) and additional trades beyond the regular trading hours. There are thousands of traders in just a single market who can place such average number of trade per day. Combining it with the number of markets around the world, the figure is just huge enough.
In addition, the technology is changing continuously, thus there is a tendency that the average number of trades per day will increase, thus a possibility of increased trade volumes on daily basis. With faster trade execution, that is a certain possibility.
Be thankful, the market is now at the helm of automation. Transactions are now faster, and earning money through trading is now easier.
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