Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

While many investors play the long game, others pursue the short-term gains of trading stocks within a short period of time. As in any investment, the goal is to buy low and sell high, but how can ...

Quant trading uses math and data to predict stock price changes and execute trades quickly. Computers in quant trading base decisions on data, removing the emotional risks of investing. Retail access ...

Volume, or the amount of trading activity per security, is one way for investors to gauge investment trends as well as momentum. How much trading interest does a security have? One way to measure it ...

Refers to computerized trading using proprietary algorithms. There are two types high frequency trading. Execution trading is when an order (often a large order) is executed via a computerized ...