Algos: Better, Faster... FewerFor the past several years, buyside traders have been consolidating their algorithms, paring back the number of tools on their desktops. During 2011, that process ...

Using algos in finance first emerged in cash equities but the changes sweeping through derivatives markets have ignited demand for more intelligent access to futures and options.

Neptune-based Algos Pharmaceutical (Nasdaq: ALGO) yesterday said it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with privately-held Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania ...

Despite the recent raw-material rally, hedge funds that trade commodities keep closing up shop as investors remember the sting of the last market rout and the role of computerized trading intensifies.

Algos are constantly being refined and tweaked in order to exploit market conditions in real-time. They can never be consistent, reliable or fast enough. Trading firms go to the extremes for speed ...

Algos are able to profit without resorting to strategies that gauge valuation. Simply put, algos may not give a fig whether a company is “worth” X or Y and can even profit while losing on trades.

The algorithmic money managers responsible for so much of oil’s turbulence last year are set to push gasoline’s red-hot rally to new highs.

Data from the National Stock Exchange (NSE) shows that algos accounted for 57 percent of all trades done in the equity cash segment in April. In F&O, it was 70 percent in FY25.

Edgeful.com recently launched three customizable trading algorithms, and traders are already using them to pass funded challenges and earn steady payouts. Emotion, impulse, revenge trades ...

Emerging Technologies Can algos collude? Quants are finding out Oxford-Man Institute is among those asking: could algorithms gang up and squeeze customers?

Entities who want to independently provide algos will need to be empaneled with exchanges and the exchanges may assign an algo ID to each algo. Such algos can be used across brokers once registered.

The word “nostalgia” comes from two Greek words: “nostos,” meaning “return home” and “algos,” meaning “pain or ache.” Analgesic shares the same word root algos where ’an ...