Investment Strategies & Instruments
Algorithmic Trading Strategies for 2026: The Complete Guide
Algorithmic trading is "virtually ubiquitous" in US equity markets, in the SEC staff's words, and cheap compute, open-source libraries and accessible data APIs have put the same tools within retail reach. Every algorithmic strategy has five components: signal, position sizing, execution, risk control and monitoring. Backtesting decides whether the first one is real.