Automatic Execution

  

Categories: Banking, Stocks, Trading

It may bring to mind images of the guillotine or maybe the height of Stalinist excess, but don't get excited; it's just a stock trading mechanism.

Automatic execution refers to a computerized program that completes trades without forcing people to input the information manually. This is key for automated trading, allowing people to create algorithms that react automatically to changes in the market and programmatically generate trades based on the situation.

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