In the world of finance, we make profits by buying securities at the lowest possible price and then selling them at the highest possible price. As such, when it comes to improving your trading efficiency, timing is crucial, and nothing could help you time your trades better than automation based on data.
Don’t believe us? Here are five ways automation ensures improved trading efficiency.
Great at Compiling Data: Whether you’re looking to calculate or improve efficiency, you’ll need to gather data that gives you an understanding of what went right, what went wrong, and why it happened. This data can be used to conduct transaction cost analyses to help you understand slippage effects, trade sizes, market volumes, and the timing itself. Collecting this data manually, however, is a time-consuming task, so automating the process will save you plenty of work hours!
Great at Clustering Data: Numbers and figures are great, but they need to be put together in a logical way if you’d like them to be useful. There is software out there that can autonomously cluster your data and help you identify which investment signals and instruments are impacting your trading efficiency.
Quick with Numbers: When looking at efficiency, it’s important to create formulae that properly measure your performance. These need to be implemented on various data clusters – a process which is pretty accident-prone. Through trading efficiency automation software, you can rest easy in the knowledge that software brings in data exactly as it is, reducing inputting errors to zero.
Helps Lessen Volatility Impact: Understanding your behaviour in different scenarios can help you gauge the best entry and exit strategy for your securities. Nevertheless, in an era of electronic trading when most sales are conducted online via software, our behaviour is not only down to our intuition but also down to speed. Automation is quick and, based on your custom parameters, can make decisions faster than any human ever will. You can read more about this in our Trading Idea Automation article.
Finetunes Your Strategy: All this data and analyses should give you an understanding of your trading efficiency, yet it’s only through making changes to your behaviour and strategy that you can reap the benefits of such analyses. That’s why automation software can help you tweak the way you work to give you a better go at improving your trading efficiency.
As a company, we are dedicated to creating software that can do all the above – in fact, we’ve helped dozens of small-to-medium financial companies use their data to improve workflow and achieve better trading efficiency.
If you too would like to benefit from our software, then get in touch with us!