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# Reuters 'tags' its own articles
# Is the City trader obsolescent?
Computers that read news stories and use the information gleaned as a basis for trading will become widespread over the next five years, Reuters said yesterday.
The information provider will make available today a tagged version of its news feed — which provides 8,000 news stories a day — to make them easier for computer-based trading systems to digest. It describes the effort as generating “machine-readable news”.
Peter Moss, the head of Reuters Enterprise Solutions,said: “In three to five years a much more sophisticated set of algorithmic trading will emerge, based on information as well as market data.”
Today about 60 per cent of trading in the United States is conducted by computer; in London the proportion is estimated to be 40 per cent. But the trading patterns used by algorithmic systems are based principally on price and volume data, although the situation is changing fast."
# Reuters 'tags' its own articles
# Is the City trader obsolescent?
Computers that read news stories and use the information gleaned as a basis for trading will become widespread over the next five years, Reuters said yesterday.
The information provider will make available today a tagged version of its news feed — which provides 8,000 news stories a day — to make them easier for computer-based trading systems to digest. It describes the effort as generating “machine-readable news”.
Peter Moss, the head of Reuters Enterprise Solutions,said: “In three to five years a much more sophisticated set of algorithmic trading will emerge, based on information as well as market data.”
Today about 60 per cent of trading in the United States is conducted by computer; in London the proportion is estimated to be 40 per cent. But the trading patterns used by algorithmic systems are based principally on price and volume data, although the situation is changing fast."
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