The stock market can be a voracious beast to those that don't understand it, but nowadays, you don't even need to understand it to make money. The rise of the digital information age and AI has brought about a new way of stock trading called algorithmic trading. Sometimes referred to as automated trading or black-box trading, this is essentially a program that can trade stocks at high speeds and frequencies, perfectly in line with the market. These programs are given constraints and instructions like timing, price, amount, etc. and a user can fine-tune how they exactly work. So how does this all work then...? Let's take a look.