Algorithmic trading provides a more systematic approach to active trading than one based on intuition or instinct. Learn how hedge funds use computer programs to trade.

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Nearly 30 years ago, the foreign exchange market (forex) was characterized by ...

The word algorithm was derived from the name Al-Khwarizmi, a 9th-century Persian mathematician and author of The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. But nowadays the word most ...

Many electronics and digital products use digital signal processing (DSP)algorithms in them. Before any algorithm gets into theproduct, an optimization process is appliedto it. The optimizationprocess ...