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Quant trading uses math and data to predict stock price changes and execute trades quickly. Computers in quant trading base decisions on data, removing the emotional risks of investing. Retail access ...

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The president is deploying the word “deal” liberally, using the term to describe all kinds of trade arrangements, some very limited or one-sided. By Ana Swanson Ana Swanson has written about ...

Day trading is the inverse of the slow and steady approach of buy-and-hold investing. With day trading, you buy and sell investments quickly — in less than a day, hence the name — in the hopes of ...