Why automated trading?
No emotions
Very few traders can successfully control hope, greed, anxiety, fear and panic in their trading; letting those emotions leak into their trading decisions. Automated trading systems don’t have an opinion and don’t have emotions - they stick to a programmed set of rules no matter what is happening around them, providing the discipline and patience required for a more objective and reliable approach to trading.
Backtested
While it is largely impossible to test how your gut feelings and intuitions about a market would have performed in the past, automated trading systems can easily be backtested using historical prices to see how the system would have performed (hypothetically) if it had been active in past market environments. While there are limitations to backtesting (chief among them that the code was prepared with the benefit of this hindsight), we would still rather see how the current algorithms worked on past prices than not having that data point when considering an automated trading strategy.
Forward-tested
Given the limitations of backtesting, we also forward-test each trading strategy -running the strategy in real time on live market data . This out of sample test can help confirm the effectiveness of the trading strategy on today’s market climate and expose any problems inherent in the code.
Real Money Fills
While backtesting is nice to have, and forward tests help confirm a strategy is viable - knowing how actual investors are doing on a trading strategy with real money is the most valuable piece of data, in our opinion. TradingMotion tracks the buy and sell prices (the ‘fills’) for each and every user for each and every trading strategy on the platform, showing subscribers the best fill price received, worst received, and average price across all accounts following a trading strategy. No more questioning if what you see on the website is what you’ll get. Users are guaranteed to be within the best and worst prices, and while sometimes you may get the best price, and sometimes the worst - more often than not you will be right around the average price due to the orders being sent in random order, resulting in actual performance over time lining up with what you see on the platform.
Fully Automated
Automated means it runs automatically, without the need for you to be glued to the computer so as to not miss any trade setups or exit points. The trading strategies are programmed to react to price movements and place orders to enter and exit as needed. All you need to do is activate a strategy, and it will run day in and day out until you deactivate it, doing the hard work for you. You can monitor your performance, make real time changes to your portfolio of strategies as needed, and the TradingMotion platform will automatically do the rest, giving you accurate information on your fills and account status, leaving human error out of the equation.
Diversified
Trading strategies come in many different shapes and sizes, some preferring to pick market tops and bottoms, others coded to ride the daily trend, and everything in between. They also run on over 40 markets spanning different countries and asset classes, with everything from Euro Bunds to Corn to the emini S&P futures. The TradingMotion platform allows you to study, compare, and choose from many different trading strategies to create a diversified portfolio with various developers, markets, and strategies. Such trading of a portfolio of uncorrelated trading strategies can help reduce risk and potentially lower drawdowns.
Who can benefit?
Individual investors
Many individual investors see the benefits of trading, but have trouble either implementing a consistent trading plan, or learning the ins and outs of the dozens of futures markets around the world. With the TradingMotion platform, there is no trading expertise needed. You gain access to sophisticated trading algorithms, and are provided with the tools to monitor and analyze the performance of hundreds of automated trading strategies. Investors can configure a portfolio of strategies that suits their desired capital level and risk appetite. Simply open an account with one of the brokers connected to our platform (or login with your existing account) and start trading via automated strategies.
Investment managers
Are you a CTA, fund manager or account manager? TradingMotion can support trading in block accounts for your clients, allowing you to allocate capital into our automated systems, select a portfolio of systems, or load your own system onto our platform for your exclusive trading - giving you real time insight into performance per system. Leave execution to us and focus on analysis and business development. Contact us for solutions customized to your needs.
Brokers / FCMs
We’ve worked with dozens of Brokers and FCMs over the years who are in need of “product’ for their clients to expand their business. TradingMotion provides that product via our server-based Automated Trading System execution service available via an API with your existing FIX connection or trading platform. We can load the platform as is onto your website, or you can contract us to build out a white label version. Your customers will have full control for starting and stopping trading systems in their accounts through your website. Contact us for information on how to integrate and the benefits we can provide.
Trading systems developers
If you are a trading systems developer, we can offer your systems to investors with brokers throughout the world. Let us handle the hassle and expense of execution, calculate performance and display it to the public in a compliant manner, and manage the leasing, invoices, and payments for you. Developers choose their own price to license the systems to clients, and you can track how many followers and leases you have sold in real time on the Developers Portal. Contact us to get started.
Trusted technology
10 years in the making...
Since 2002, TradingMotion has offered automated trading systems from different developers to investors, starting the service at the leading futures broker in Spain - Interdin.com. After years of perfecting our execution technology, expanding the number of available systems, and providing better tools for their analysis; the next step in our evolution is to make the platform available to more investors through partnerships with leading brokers around the world.
Reliability
We have refined our technology to deliver what we believe to be the fastest and most fair execution available. Every trade is sent to the exchange via a direct connection, and sent in random order to assure no one account gets preferred treatment. Once a trade is filled, clients can see the best, worst, and average price received across all accounts trading each strategy, and how much that fill differed from the strategy ‘fill price’, what we call slippage. Our mission is to insure the performance you receive in your account over a representative period of time matches the performance you see on the platform.
Neutral
We leave the decision on what brokerage to trade through to you, and connect to several so that you can trade through the brokerage relationship you are most comfortable with. Similarly, we leave the decisions on which systems to activate up to you, remaining neutral. We present objective information and let the client decide where and how to invest.
Server-based execution
TradingMotion technology sends orders direct to the various futures exchanges within milliseconds after a trading system has generated a signal, running the trading algorithms on the same servers as the order routing technology to remove the latency which comes from building charts or running system code on a remote machine which then must transmit orders to another machine.
4 Steps to go Live
Explore trading strategies
Go to
“Explore Systems” to browse through the hundreds of trading strategies we have pre-screened and whose performance we track in real time. Sort the strategies by different criteria such as return, drawdown, and minimum investment by clicking on each column. The TradingMotion platform allows you to analyze, compare, and choose the strategies that best fit your investment strategy, available capital, and risk tolerance.
If you don’t yet have an account with one of the brokers connected to the TradingMotion platform, you will need to create one. Follow the process on the
“Brokers” section and when you are done, access our TradingMotion platform from your broker’s website, when logged into your account.
Once logged in, simply look for the strategies that appeal to you and activate them. Some can be activated for free; others require a monthly license. Upon activation, select the number of futures contracts you would like traded for your account, and we’ll start trading that strategy’s signals for you right away. You may deactivate the system or modify its multiplier at any point.
When you activate one of our fully automated trading strategies, we will begin trading the signals on your account immediately, and continue doing so without any further instruction from you. You can monitor your performance as frequently or infrequently as you like to make any needed adjustments to your portfolio and TradingMotion will do the rest, giving you real time accurate information on your fills, performance per strategy you select, and more.
