Trading robots keep filling all kinds markets (stocks, futures, currencies). According to some estimation, automated trading systems (ATS) make 50% to 75% of all trading. In some marketplaces like EUREX or RTS it is 90%.
Thus, we can see that the markets have seen the most considerable evolution in the last 10 years. Here is a simple example: Goldman Sachs with its army of supercomputers had only 14 unprofitable days in 2010.
Nowadays there are 2 main approaches towards automated trading:
· high-frequency trading (HFT);
· algorithmic trading
These days numerous big-scale banks, investment and hedge funds make use of ATSs, which has proved profitable. It becomes more and more difficult for a human to compete with trading robots, Robots do not need to sleep or have a rest. Auto-trading raises protests in trading circles as the market has changed and the previous methods have become ineffective or useless. Such evolution of trading makes traders choose:
1. to switch to auto-trading and to increase the profit
2. to trade in an old-school manner… and finally abandon trading forever.
It is obvious that the old trading styles will eventually become ineffective and uncompetitive. It is just a matter of time. Computers already do the same work better and faster.
The leading experts of the Department of Market Trading, , say that auto-trading have really changed trading. However, everything is not that bad. A good human trader will always have a lot of work to do and a lot of opportunities to make money. The thing is that traders should make use of innovative technologies and useful tools to make their trading activity more effective. This is what Igor Vasev told the audience about at WorldShowFx-2011 in his presentation called “Sniping – new trading technology”
There are 2 ways to avoid useless struggle with trading robots:
1. To trade the assets not traded by bots. If to consider stocks there are thousands of them. So the choice is wide. Of course, specific knowledge (for example, the "SNIPING" system) and practice are needed.
2. To try and define the algorithms used by trading robots. Knowing the current situation and the trading principles used by major market operators, Igor Vasev and his team developed “Sniping”, an exclusive algorithmic trading system, which allows to define the market tycoons’ interest and to trade with them, not against them. The system is profitable in the stock and futures market as well as in Forex. The details are available at ’s forum for traders and investors.
