The Core Report #729 Global Markets Turn Nervous
Nov 18, 2025
Ashish Nanda, Chief Digital Business Officer at Kotak Securities, shares insights on the rising trend of algorithmic trading. He explains how this technology is removing emotional decision-making from trades, allowing for programmatic order placements. The discussion delves into the current market nervousness, driven by tech earnings, and how generational shifts are influencing retail investor behavior. Ashish also highlights the minimal market penetration of algo trading and forecasts renewed interest from younger investors as market conditions improve.
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Limits Of Current LLMs
- Sundar Pichai and Yann LeCun caution that today's LLMs lack true world models and can hallucinate.
- They argue AI needs architectures that learn by observing the world to achieve real reasoning and planning.
Global Nervousness, India Re-rating Case
- Global equities dipped on worries about high valuations before Nvidia's results and US economic data.
- Morgan Stanley raised India targets, seeing room for re-rating amid corrected relative valuations.
Automate To Remove Trading Emotion
- Use APIs to remove emotion from trading by automating buy/sell rules tied to price or indicators.
- Connect programmatic strategies to your broker via REST APIs or Python SDKs to execute systematically.