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What are the advantages of an automated trading system? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔minimize
emotions, ability to backrest, preserve discipline, improved order entry speed, diversify trading
Https - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
What are the disadvantages of an automated trading system? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔mechanical failures, monitoring, over-optimization
What is a moving average - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔an average of values, but only the recent
values (for stalk values)
Simple moving average - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔unweighted average of the end values
Exponential moving average - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔puts more emphasize on recent values not
older ones/ weighted average
Algorithms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔set of rules that tell a computer program what to do
What is big data? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔extremely large and complex data sets that are more
difficult to analyze than traditional data sets
How is big data used in ninja trader? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
, 64 bit vs 32 bit software - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔64-bit is newer architecture that allows more
memory and therefore larger data sets and more complicated computation
Manual Trading - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A trading system that involves human decision-making
for entering and exiting trades. This is in contrast to automatic trading, which employs programs
linked to market data, which are able to originate trades based on human instructional criteria.
Data Hierarchy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔bit, byte, field, record, file, data file, database
RAM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Random Access Memory
Hardware overtime becomes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔faster, cheaper, smaller
CPU (Central Processing Unit) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔directs the flow of data and instructions
in a computer (brain of the computer)
ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔receives data and instructions from the
registers and makes the desired calculation
Control unit - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔directs the flow of data and instructions within the chip
ROM (Read Only Memory) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Can't be changed or erased (RAM can be
changed)
Registers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Small, high-speed storage locations that temporarily hold data
and instructions.