What is algorithmic trading?
Also called algo trading.
Algorithmic trading is using a computer program to decide and place trades based on defined rules, instead of trading manually.
An algorithm watches market data and fires buy or sell decisions when its conditions are met. The hard part is rarely the strategy; it is the execution layer that turns a decision into real orders across real accounts reliably.
Candella lets you run your algorithm on your own infrastructure and send each decision as one signed request. Candella handles the execution, so you skip building and maintaining a brokerage integration. See the developer docs for the API and SDKs.
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