| Though the stock market has experienced a drastic | | | | program is a predetermined system where an |
| amount of volatility over the past few months (and | | | | investor waits for certain signals or triggers to occur |
| really, years), the up and down roller coaster ride has | | | | in the marketplace before implementing a set course |
| not yet completely scared off potential investors at | | | | of action. For example, an investor has $100 invested |
| all. Though this is a little surprising, part of the reason | | | | in Stock A and $50 in Stock B. His trading program |
| is so simple that it is often being overlooked entirely | | | | involves waiting until the price of Stock B has risen at |
| by the many "experts" that get paid a lot of money | | | | least half of a point and Stock A one quarter of a |
| to interpret the vagaries of the stock market. The | | | | point before he will ever consider selling his shares in |
| reason that investors are still willing to play the | | | | either for a profit. This is the essence of a stock |
| market is because the very nature of the old trading | | | | trading program, and it is a way to mitigate emotional |
| paradigm is shifting toward something much better | | | | responses to market conditions. |
| and brighter. | | | | With an automated stock trading program, what little |
| Though the idea of a stock trading program has | | | | of the guesswork involved is removed completely, as |
| been around for a very long time, the 21st century is | | | | a computer software algorithm is tasked with |
| bringing with it the adaptation of an ingenuous | | | | compiling and analyzing the stock market data to |
| innovation - a truly automatic stock trading program | | | | determine what the best course of action should be |
| that offers investors a thorough, trend based | | | | at the close of any given trading day. This removes |
| analysis of the fluctuations in the stock market each | | | | both human bias and human error from the equation, |
| and every trading day. | | | | leaving the investor to simply pull the trigger on the |
| But what makes an automated stock trading | | | | advice given by the automated program. Though this |
| program that much better than the old fashioned, | | | | may seem a little too odd for some investors, keep |
| more traditional kind? | | | | in mind that automated stock trading programs have |
| Well, first let us look at what a stock trading | | | | far outperformed human stock brokers and |
| program really is. In the traditional sense, a trading | | | | investment managers over the past few years. |