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Trading for beginners. Where to start?

2020-04-29T00:32:51Z

We continue the series of articles dedicated to trading for beginners.
In most cases, young traders come to trade against the background of beautifully told stories about how easy it is to start earning money in the market.
We hasten to disappoint, trading is a difficult and painstaking process.
Most of those who flout this rule face disappointment while trading.
Trading is not a momentary success, it is a strictly developed, developed, conscious system, following which you can start earning and multiply your capital.

How do I get started?
Of course, you need to start your trading career with training.
Today, a huge number of companies offer to train you for ridiculous money, promising a fast and" win-win " trading system.
Whether to believe or not is up to you, but you need to remember that most of these "coaches" do not have the necessary competence or their system is based on the principle: bought cheaper, sold more expensive.
Many companies offering training do not have their own systems and software, but use third-party software, offering you to build your trading system on someone else's software.
In fact, they will never be able to give a proper explanation of the behavior of a particular program, and accordingly all learning will consist in pressing the buttons shown in the training. Will such training be effective? We don't know, everyone decides for themselves.
Along with such teachers, there are courses that teach not just trading on the market, but also learning how to create your own trading systems. The trader gets the opportunity to learn not just how to manage the program and trade in it, but also learn the basics and concepts of trading, with the ability to create their own trading systems and as a result, a more in-depth knowledge of the market.

For example, our training course is designed, among other things, for a novice trader who is just learning the basics of trading. It is not just about creating trading systems. But also the concepts of trade, with explanations of why you need it this way. The advantage is that you do not learn on third-party software, but use our own, so you always have the opportunity to teach updates and tips in difficult situations.

What does a trader learn during his studies?
The trader studies the market, features and nuances of trading. An important aspect is the understanding and ability to apply knowledge of technical and fundamental analysis.
Knowledge of analysis allows you, in combination with knowledge of methods of building trading systems, to build trading strategies that will allow the trader to earn.
An extensive set of programs for analysis allow the raider to learn how to use a large number of important and convenient tools. For example, Hydra not only helps you download stock quotes for analysis, but also allows you to perform a large number of operations for analysis.

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In General, the ability to choose the right trading program for work, whether it is the TWS terminal from IB or the S#.Designer trading robot designer from S#, allows the trader to reduce the time for training.
It is important to determine which program you need.
For manual trading, you need to choose the most reliable, informative and fast terminal. It will allow you to quickly respond to changing market conditions on the stock exchange. It will provide a more detailed vision for operational analysis.
In General, not many terminals allow you to connect to several trading sources at once, but this makes trading more flexible and secure. For example, the Terminal program implements the selection of a dozen exchanges.
What does it give:
- Great opportunity,
- Ease of trading,
- Flexibility of trading strategies
- "It's free.

Many people will find manual trading uninteresting and difficult, plus time-consuming. For such traders, the choice may fall on automated trading platforms.
Here you need to understand that among them there are those on which various scenarios are pre-installed, and those on which you create these scenarios yourself (Tslab or Designer). Creating trading strategies using dice generally makes it easier for the trader to work. Now you can use the appropriate block to select the necessary operation or condition for trading your strategy.

So where do I get started? First of all, to get the necessary knowledge. Successful trading is impossible without understanding the market, without the ability to conduct technical and fundamental analysis, because it is on such knowledge that the trader's ability to build a profitable strategy depends. You need to be able to manage your capital and create your own trading system, as well as optimize it as necessary. In addition, it is important to choose the right stock broker and learn how to use the trading terminal SOFTWARE.

You can not ignore the issue of constant training, understanding the basics of trading. A trader should be able to study tirelessly. In General, the desire to learn is the key to success. New knowledge allows you to expand your trading opportunities.
An important factor of successful trading is the emotional readiness of the trader. Stress is an unavoidable companion of trading. A trader must have a cool head and a reasonable mind.
The trader must be able to clearly analyze the situation, have a sense of self-control and will, including when it is necessary to take risks.

So, successful trading is a combination of many factors that affect the choice of a bidder.
Balanced decisions are the first step to a guaranteed profit. A trader must constantly learn and improve their knowledge, must be able to make decisions soberly and make sometimes inconvenient steps.
In the following articles, we will look at what else can affect the quality at the very beginning of trading.
We are waiting for your comments and questions. Thanks.

Algo trading software review

2020-06-29T10:44:30Z

Read this article to find out more about tech companies developing software for algorithmic trading.
Let's make a quick review.

A TSLab company specialized in developing a popular trading software to work with Forex or stockbrokers. The software itself is a builder platform where you can design your own trading robot based on already built one. After a trial period you need to purchase the full version.

Another software for algorithmic trading is WealthLab. It gives you an opportunity to create your trading strategy in C programming language. It has its own library that contains code.

If you are more advanced user, there's a trading platform called R Studio. It has multiple language support along with wide range of functionality and allows you to build a highly complex trading model.

The StockSharp company combines the functionality of all of 3 platforms mentioned above.
Our products have great usability and a perfect interaction with each other what makes it a powerful tool for algo trading. Whether you come up with your own trading algorithm in C language and further integrate it in the Designer terminal in the form of a cube or simply write a code using our powerful library API, it's free to use and always will be. Data collection and transferring for analysis and testing can be implemented with one of our software programs called Hydra. It's also free, easy to both set up and use. Personal blend of trading tools, a large listing of brokers and a variety of different trading platforms along with features that let you directly connect to exchanges makes our products truly unique and innovative. For a full and more detailed list of products you can find on our website.

Trend and countertrend! Don't choose to use it together.

2020-04-14T20:34:27Z

Previously, we have already discussed various trading methods that can be used when trading, in order to increase its profitability.
For most traders, following the trend is a sign of the correct approach to trading at the moment. Like saying: "Following the trend is already 50% successful trading". There is hardly a player in the market who will deny this statement, especially if the trend is turned in the right direction for the trader, he gets a guaranteed profit.
The trader's desire to extract the maximum profit is aimed at finding a point of entry into the market when the price is either minimal for buying the desired asset, or maximum for selling the existing one.
To determine such points, a trader often needs not only a flair, which is generally one of the most important qualities, but also the ability to use complexes from a combination of trend and counter-trend strategies.
In the market, there is always a kind of confrontation between trend traders and counter-trend traders, using pullbacks and local changes in market trends.
The key to success and, as a result, getting the maximum income, is to merge these two strategies in a combination of experience and trader's flair.
However, it is worth noting that even a less experienced market player can trade using a combination of these strategies, just using automated trading systems and trading robots. For example, such as "Mr. Hyde" from StockSharp, which allows even a less experienced trader to use the movement against the trend, in order to increase revenue.

What is the combined method of trading?
The basic rules are the basis for this method:
1. Finding a way to determine a long-term trend or trend on the chart.
2. Determining the opposite counter-method that allows you to determine the pullback signal, as well as a short – term trend change in the opposite direction-determining the counter-trend.
There are various methods for determining points of entry and identifying subjectively correct methods of determination. Often, these methods seem quite complex to novice traders, but when you look at them in detail, they are quite accessible.
Let's look at one of the ways.
First, we need to identify long-term trends in the market. To do this, we will build a price chart and a moving average chart with a period equal to 200. You can build such a graph using the S#.Designer program, using the tools provided in it.

This method is very common among analysts, and allows you to determine long-term trends in the market.
His idea is that if the price is located above the indicator line, the market is growing, and if it is lower, the price is decreasing.
This indicator line is a General indicator of the market trend. Now, to determine the entry points to the market, we add two more averages, using periods of 10 and 30 days.

What is the point?
In cases when the ten - day moving average will be above the thirty-day one and above the main two-hundred-day one, we can talk about a stable UP-trend.
UP-TREND is one of three types of trend, which is a sequence of rising lows or highs of prices. it is a series of consistently rising lows and highs of prices. In other words, UP-TREND shows price growth over a period of time. It is also called a bullish trend in the FOREX market.
If the situation with the moving average is the opposite, and the ten-day moving average is below the remaining two, then we can talk about a downtrend, or as it is commonly called a bearish trend.
A change in the direction of the trend can occur over a long period, and there may be an error in the form of a delay. In order to avoid this, you can use a counter-trend indicator.
Each user chooses such an indicator for himself, focusing on the convenience and technical capabilities. For example, to get market data, although the latter problem is solved using the same S#.Designer or Hydra, which downloads market data online.
For example, we will use an oscillator that will cross the zero line. For example, consider the graph below.

So, let's determine the points where the long-term trend is changing and where you can make an entry to the market. By placing the charts together, or combining them, we can determine the points at which we could enter the market. These points are shown in the graph below.

As you can see, this method is quite simple to work with. However it has its drawbacks:
- You need to understand that the method shows repeated signals, and it may turn out that the point that the trader has identified for entry may be a trend reversal.
- It is important to understand that any method can not be considered a fully automatic method and requires the intervention of the trader, and trading robots simplify the work of the trader, but also depend on its settings.
The General conclusion is simple: trading using a combined trend and counter-trend method allows the trader to increase their income by using the direction of market movement.
A trader should rely not only on trading systems and trading robots, but also on their intuition and knowledge, which together make it possible to increase profits.

What is a trading robot?

2019-10-28T14:49:18Z

The growth of activity in the world markets among traders, as well as the constant progress of technology, led to an increase in the speed of actions carried out by players on the trading floor.
Today, many traders actively working with various financial instruments prefer trading robots rather than manual trading. This is largely due to the speed of operations and their volume.
Let's see, what is a trading robot? A trading robot is a special program created by a special algorithm, according to which it conducts trading operations. [nerd]
Let's take a closer look at the features of such programs.
The trading robot program allows you to fully or partially take over the process of working on the trading floor. The trader, as the operator of the trading robot, has the possibility of full control over it, which allows the robot to adjust the trading robot, make changes to the program code or change the algorithm.
The trading robot in Autonomous operation independently makes decisions on orders and transactions, according to the established criteria of its algorithm, with intervention in the user's process, operations can be carried out in manual mode.
The program code of the trading robot is based on calculated and thought-out mathematical sequences. Keeping track of different data such as indexes, indicators and other market data obtained from the exchange. The trading robot program decides whether to buy or sell certain assets. The speed of reaction to market changes, allows the trading robot to make much more transactions, respectively, potentially bring greater profits and reduce losses. [nerd]

Let's return to the main task of the trading robot. We can say that the task of a trading robot to simplify trading for a trader is not the main one. The main task of the trading robot is to be able to implement through programming trading algorithms that are difficult or impossible to implement in manual trading. Simply put, a trading robot is a set sequence of actions for making a trade.

From the total mass of trading robots, it is necessary to distinguish three main groups that differ in the algorithm of work or the type of strategy.
- Trend (directional) or directional;
- Countertrend;
- Arbitral.

Let us consider in more detail the features of each type of trading robots.
1. Trend or directional robots. The purpose of the robot is the fastest response to the trend of the market, in other words to track in which direction the market has turned. Depending on the direction, the trading robot automatically opens a position either by selling or buying. Accordingly, if the market changes its direction, the trading robot performs the opposite action as quickly as possible, opening a position.
2. Countertrend trading robots. Their goal is to track price rollbacks. This trading robot monitors price rollbacks occurring in the flat position of the market and places orders based on the established algorithm.
3. Arbitrage trading robot. This trading robot is almost the most popular type. A trading robot such as "Edward", for example, makes a profit by determining price differences between similar or identical instruments in different markets. In fact, he buys in one market, sells in another, compensating for the difference and making a profit.

Another way is the separation of robots:
- Candlestick. These are trading robots that use candlestick data to determine signals for placing orders.
- Indicator. These robots use indicator data to open an order.

Let's talk about building a trading robot. The very writing of program code is not a difficult task, reduced to the knowledge of programming languages. It is much more difficult to find the right way to create a trading algorithm on the basis of which a trading robot is created.
Today, up to 50% of transactions on trading platforms are made by trading robots. Trading robots are rightfully considered one of the most reliable and effective trading tools. There's an explanation :
- Trading robot simplifies the work of transactions with a large volume of the lot, dividing the application into smaller parts and making transactions in parts;
- Trading robot reduces the labor of the trader, making trading operations automatically. This contributes to an increase in the volume of transactions, increase the profits that trade brings, and, importantly, reduces the possible loss;
- While remaining automatic, the trading robot can always be switched to manual mode, that is, it remains completely under the control of its owner;
- A huge list of tools and methods that can be used by a trading robot, allow us to say that the trading robot makes it possible to realize the most complex mathematical problems for trading;
- The trading robot does not have the criterion of emotionality, in fact, it soberly operates its inherent mechanism. Does not panic in a stressful situation.

When analyzing trading robots, a trader must choose the right path for himself, on the basis of which he will be able to choose a robot for himself. A trader should understand that a trading robot is not decision for 100% success. In addition to the trader, it is important to know the platform for the implementation of such trading robots. There are quite a lot of them (TSlab, S#.Designer).

Summing up, we can say that the trading robot is reliable and convenient functionality in the arms of the trader, the most important thing is to use it correctly when conducting exchange trading.