Statistics on bots on Russian stock exchanges

    Judging by the MICEX statistics published in the Vedomosti newspaper , Russian traders in their technical equipment are not far behind foreign ones. At least in August 2009, our bot activity reached 55%, while on the largest exchanges in the world an average of 42% (a peak of 48% was reached on the NYSE in June 2009).



    Unable to cope with increasing trading volumes, the RTS Exchange in June introduced a fee for exceeding the transaction limit. The Moscow Interbank Stock Exchange plans similar.

    The so-called "hyperactive investors" (more than two applications per minute) in August issued more than 55% of applications for the MICEX. In January 2007 this share was 20%, in August 2008 - 30%. The number of robots themselves, which for a long time was about 30, reached 70 by August 2009. The range of instruments with which more than one transaction is performed per minute has also expanded.

    The transition of all markets of the world to automated trading is accompanied by strange incidents , a multiple increase in exchange turnovers, as well as involving more individual traders in the trades. According to experts, thanks to modern software, a single trader has the same capabilities as a small trading company with a dozen employees five years ago.

    It is in the field of exchange trading software that the biggest money is spinning (perhaps even more than the budgets of military departments). It is logical to assume that this is where the cutting edge of scientific and technological developments is located and the most highly paid programmers work here. Some futurologists like Ray Kurzweil even suggest that the birth of the first real Artificial Intelligence system will take place on the stock market. Already, neural networks and genetic algorithms are being applied here with might and main, which simulate the processes occurring in the human brain.

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