London Startup Seeks to Unleash DIY Bitcoin Trading Bots on the Markets
Bitcoin trading bots will no longer be the exclusive preserve of software and finance wonks if startup Tradewave has its way. The London-based company has developed a platform that lets users create their own trading bots, stripping away some of the complexities of programming such tools independently. Tradewave's founder James Potter said his platform would address the "mismatch" between institutional traders with the resources to develop their own bots and retail investors who are left to execute trades by hand: "A lot of institutional trading is now automated and retail is very manual....
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