Category: Trading Strategies

Smart Jobber Strategy

Smart Jobber is a jobbing algorithm with advanced parameters. It helps the traders to buy...

Conditional Orders: Algo for Discretionary Traders

Conditional Orders, such as Bracket Order or 2-Leg Orders, allow traders to to buy/sell in...

Volatility Calculations and Perceptions

Understanding Volatility Volatility indicates the variation in market prices. The volatility calculations (and perception) depends...

Concepts in Trading Strategies – Alpha Generation

Before trying to find or design a good trading strategy, one should understand the intrinsic...

Profit Target vs Trailing Stops

Whether to use a Profit Target (Tgt) or a Trailing Stop (TSL), or a combination...

Implementation Shortfall

Implementation Shortfall (IS) indicates the difference between the price at which trader wants to execute order...

Trend Participation- Execution Strategy

The Trend Participation Strategy may increase or decrease the participation rate as market prices move...

Target Close (Day)

The Target Close strategy tries to copy a Market-On-Close (MOC) order, for exchanges which do...

Percentage of Volume

The Percentage of Volume (POV), also called as Participation Rate, is a simple strategy which...

Time Weighted Average Price (TWAP)

Time Weighted Average Price (TWAP) is an execution strategy which trades in slices of Order Quantity...