Trending Technologies

• Trending Technologies is an educational financial technology company based out of Miami, Florida that focuses on artificial intelligence to auto-trade on the stock market.
• Trending Technologies was founded by Tousant Taylor and Tom John in order to provide the best possible solution for automated trading across the full range of financial instruments, enabling users to auto trade and automatically mirror the trades of proprietary strategies in their brokerage accounts.
• Tousant Taylor is the Co-Founder and CFO at Trending Technologies. Tousant is a retired Florida-based financial planner, well-seasoned, experienced, and an active trader, who has traded for over 20 years. During these years, he has designed and utilized different trading styles and strategies to become well-rounded, self-directed, and a consistently profitable trader. This experience has brought a wealth of knowledge to the architecture of the SmartTrade product line.
• Tom John is the Co-Founder and CTO at Trending Technologies. Tom has over 20 years of experience in software system design, development, and implementation of real-time systems. This experience aligns perfectly with stock market trading, where real-time data, analytics, and actionable responses are critical to success. He handles all technical and engineering aspects of the SmartTrade product line.
• Their continuous efforts to deliver efficient, high quality products and service to the consumer market are second to none.

What Is Automated Trading?

• Automatic trading, which is also known as black box trading, robotic trading and algorithmic trading, is a mechanism that enables traders to have their orders executed automatically. By setting certain prerequisites based on price fluctuations and technical indicators, buying and selling orders can be fully automated.
• This form of trading can be used in any type of investment strategies, including market making, arbitrage, inter-market spreading or pure speculation, such as trend following.
• By engaging in automated trading, one can also supplement investment and strategy decisions at any point in time with special algorithmic support, or simply let the system fully operate automatically, i.e. on “auto pilot”. This form of trading is used in a wide range of markets including Forex, futures, options and stocks.
• An automated system takes the emotion and busy-work out of trading, allowing traders to focus on improving their strategies and money management rules.

Automated Trading vs. Manual Trading

• The decision to trade automatically or manually can at times be a difficult one to make. Some people prefer automated trading over manual trading because it is a mode of trading that has been tested by experienced traders. Alternatively, some traders - especially those with good intuitions about the market - prefer to adopt their own trading strategies based on comprehensive research about the market and trade manually. In short, before deciding on which type of trading to adopt, one should be aware of their respective advantages and disadvantages.
• The quickest way for a novice to learn about the market is to engage in manual trading, which enables a trader to open or close his market position whenever he chooses. To open a trade is relatively simple: one only has to place a deposit, select a futures symbol to trade, determine the direction of the market trend, set the leverage level - specifying the stop loss and profit taking points - and then open the trade.
• These steps can be carried out whenever traders decide to act; for example, upon the release of an economic report that causes prices to surge. As such, manual trading can be extremely satisfying, especially for traders who spend considerable time following market behaviour. That said, successful trades also require discipline and good money management skills.
• Automated trading, on the other hand, is an extremely good way for novice traders to build up confidence about the market in order to prevent their weak psychological profiles from affecting their trading. In addition, they are also able to use tested and proven strategies to help ensure the success of their trades. Even experienced traders, in fact, adopt automated trading to make trading more efficient.
• The most obvious benefit in automated trading, as noted earlier, is that it frees traders from time constraints by making the practice of constantly watching the market unnecessary. If a change in the market occurs when a trader is indisposed, the automated trading system will execute the specified buy and sell orders based on the chosen automated strategy that was activated.
• Furthermore, automated trading prevents fear and greed from affecting trader's decisions. Emotion is one of the biggest factors that affect profitability: fear and greed can cause us to close our positions prematurely or over-trade. In automated trading, however, computer algorithms replace the human element that leads to this emotional threat to profits.

The Top 10 Advantages of Using Automated Trading in Futures & Stock Markets

• 1. There is no learning curve, since prior knowledge of the Futures & the Stock market is not required. Traders do not need to learn about trading methods or systems in order to trade, they can simply rely on the tested strategies of the automated systems.
• 2. There is no down time due to the learning process. Traders can start earning from the very first day they adopt automated trading.
• 3. One can effectively remove emotion and guesswork from trading, making fear and greed no longer an issue.
• 4. Traders can let professional strategies do the work for them, allowing the auto-trader software to manage their money by executing the necessary buy and sell signals.
• 5. Even if traders have no time to study the market in detail, they are still able to participate in it.
• 6. One can capitalize on opportunities 24 hours a day: when using automated trading, one doesn’t need to always look for the next trade. Traders can remain calm while the automated system constantly scans the market for opportunities.
• 7. There are advanced risk management options, since traders can actually build their own personal hedge funds by choosing signal sets they prefer and the number of lots assigned to them.
• 8. Regardless of whether traders are working at their day jobs or sleeping, they can rest assured that their money is constantly working for them. All they need to do is choose their preferred trading strategy.
• 9. Once a Trending Technologies strategy is chosen and downloaded into your trading platform, all one needs to do is activate it. There is a wide selection of automated trading strategies and symbols from which to choose. At any one time, Trending Technologies' traders and programmers are working to create new and better strategies; in automated trading, all one has to do is to find and choose the best strategy that fits their financial needs.
• 10. By freeing up trader's time, automated trading allows them to focus on improving their money management rules.

Markets are harder to navigate

• After the last market downturn, it was realized that the market was harder to navigate than when we first began.
  
• It was more difficult for new and seasoned investors, or traders, to manually trade the markets and become profitable.
  
• Trading Patterns have been changing...

​Computers have taken over

• Over the past few years, new ways to automate giant orders, millisecond trading techniques, and algorithms alter how, when, and where stocks are bought and sold.
  
• There is a huge evolution going on in the internal market structure, where over 90% of all the orders are processed automatically.
  
• Most orders are triggered by a computer rather than a manual entry by a human.
  
• This means that Trading Patterns have changed dramatically in just the last decade.
  
• Some Signal Patterns from the traditional Japanese Candlesticks rarely form in our automated marketplace any more.
  
• Others have become less reliable than they were even a few years ago.
  

​Extraordinarily long candles

• With the advent of High Frequency Trading (HFT) firms, there are many more gaps, wider gaps and far more extraordinarily long candles.
  
• These patterns reflect the activity of the High Frequency Trades.
  
• Longer term patterns are also changing.
  
• Bottoming and topping patterns, sideways patterns, and other trend-line formations have evolved due to the new market structure.
  

How does the little guy compete?

• So there was need for Automated Trading Software geared to and for the masses – The Middle Class; Trading Software that considered these changes.
  
• Trending Technologies addressed this need and created a set of world class Auto-Trader Software products so that new traders and investors of all income levels are given the best chance to succeed.
  
• Trending Technologies provides personalized, automated stock market trading software to educators, individuals, investment groups, charitable organizations, government agencies, and small businesses.