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Algorithmic trading has two meanings: - the process of taking in inputs such as market data, current news, and producing orders without human intervention. - the process of optimising the trading of a large order or the market making process.

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Free paper trading site with an API

This question sounds a lot like this one. It's going to be difficult to find everything you need completely for free. In order to simulate trading sensibly, you will need a real-time data feed, and …
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Excellent information source on advanced machine learning / data mining based trading?

Stanford University has a free online course in machine learning with video lectures, problem sets, and even a promise of online help with coursework from Stanford faculty. This course provides a …
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Is my trading strategy search methodology sound?

This is a very interesting question. I believe it is getting a lot of up-votes from people who have wondered the same thing and don't know where to begin, whereas you have at least laid out a reasona …
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What is a medium to low frequency trading strategy and why is it less hyped?

This answer summarizes some of my comments. HFT is certainly a very hot topic these days, but it's hard to point to any one reason. A large part of it is the mystery and the profits, but also part of …
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Has high frequency trading (HFT) been a net benefit or cost to society?

This answer is my ongoing attempt to consolidate some recent commentary on this hot topic. A good place to start for anyone thinking about this question is the Economists's Buttonwood: Not So Fast, wh …
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How to generate synthetic FX data for backtesting?

For starters, I am not even sure why you need to ask this question. There is literally years of free tick data available for FX, just check out quant.SE's data wiki. Having said that, a Gaussian is a …
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References for developing an automated trading system?

In addition to Chan's Quantitative Trading, I have also found the description of trading systems in Rishi Narang's Inside the Black Box to be informative and interesting. There are a few chapters the …
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