Two stock-trading agents: Market making and technical analysis
2004
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25947-3_2…
8 pages
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Abstract
Evolving information technologies have brought computational power and real-time facilities into the stock market. Automated stock trading draws much interest from both the fields of computer science and of business, since it promises to provide superior ability in a trading market to any individual trader. Trading strategies have been proposed and practiced from the perspectives of Artificial Intelligence, market making, external information feedback, and technical analysis among others.


















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