Algorithmic Trading

2. An order placed to automatically sell a security when its price falls to a certain level, limiting potential losses. Two words.
5. Where some traders locate their servers to be physically closer to exchange servers, in order to reduce latency and gain a speed advantage.
7. Referring to the use of mathematical models and statistical techniques in trading strategies.
9. Evaluating a trading strategy by applying it to historical market data to see how it would have performed.
10. A private exchange or forum for trading securities, often used by institutional traders. Two words.
13. The practice of exploiting price differences of the same asset on different markets to make a profit.
14. The difference between the expected price of a trade and the price at which it is actually executed.
15. The ease with which an asset can be bought or sold without significantly affecting its price.
16. A computing frontier for speeding up some trading algorithmic trades.

1. A set of rules and instructions designed to make trading decisions automatically.
3. An algo trading platform popular among online retail foreign exchange traders.
4. A trading platform offering "social sharing" that enables traders to copy trading strategies of others.
5. Abbreviation for a type of software the analyzes complex, real-time events and processes them for trading opportunities and risk.
6. A measure of a strategy's performance compared to a benchmark, representing the return generated beyond what would be expected.
8. A type of algorithmic trading that executes a large number of orders in very short timeframes. Two words.
11. Abbreviation for the combination of new systems that combine order and execution into one management system.
12. An order to buy or sell a security at a specific price or better, used to control entry and exit points. Two words.