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Automated Trading Decisions Based on a Symbol's Price Change
Do you manually check a stock's price movement before placing an order? Use this simple but powerful decision recipe to reference a symbol’s price change when making automated trading decisions inside a bot.
Kirk Du Plessis
Jun 23, 2021
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