
Automated trading—also called algorithmic trading, black-box trading, or trading bots—is the use of computer programs to place, manage, and exit trades automatically according to pre-defined rules—no manual clicks required. Done well, that digital autopilot delivers lightning-fast fills, round-the-clock vigilance, and the emotional neutrality humans struggle to maintain; done poorly, it can magnify coding errors, over-optimized…

High-frequency trading, or HFT, is an ultra-fast, computer-driven style of buying and selling securities that hunts for pennies—or fractions of a penny—by firing off thousands of orders in microseconds. Algorithms watch every tick, decide, and execute faster than a blink, extracting profit from tiny imbalances before a human mouse can click. Since electronic trading floors…

Yes — you can build your own automated trading system by laying down clear trading rules, coding (or using no-code builders), running rigorous backtests, and connecting the finished strategy to a broker API that handles live execution and risk controls. An automated trading system is simply a set of unambiguous instructions that a computer follows…