As equity markets around the globe reach new global highs, traders must look to alternative ways to identify significant technical reference points, writes Shaun Downey.

Markets can reverse or accelerate around holidays. With Easter just behind us and the US equity market at all-time highs, it seems prudent to remind ourselves of this theory.

Reckon you're a fast reader? There's a reasonable chance your company has machines that have already read every single word in this article, long before you could lay eyes on it. If that's the case, you're currently in the minority among market participants - but you may not be for long. Signs point to a steady climb in the adoption of systems that allow vast amounts of news and social data to be consumed instantly. As the technology has advanced, the market has grown more comfortable embracing it. Adam Cox surveys the unstructured data landscape and asks what's in store.

With potentially terabytes of conflicting data arriving on multiple ultra low latency data feeds, a myriad of ways to slice and dice the flow of information, and the not inconsiderable challenge of accurately factoring in sentiment and expectation to challenge any news algo, automating trading from news and getting it right is possibly one of the greatest challenges for a high frequency trading firm. Bob Giffords analyses the extent and sophistication of some of the news driven trading strategies currently in operation.

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