Open Source Moving On Up …
I’m writing this blog from the Red Carpet Club at SFO … heading back to NYC in an hour. It’s been a great week out here in the Bay Area catching up with some old friends and making some new ones. Earlier in the week, I attended the Open Source Business Conference. One of the...
Old Friends, Familiar Faces, Some Surprises
I am posting this from the San Francisco Bay Area, and it just struck me that a couple of major players from these parts were recently the subject of posts on this portal. What’s more, they are companies that – despite being once huge on Wall Street – I hadn’t expected to be covering in...
Can FPGAs Overcome the FUD?
So, those party animals at Activ Financial have invited me to a little gathering tonight – at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square – to formally launch ActivFeed MPU, their new hardware-accelerated feed handling software. It should be an great event, and I’m looking forward to finding out more about the black art of programming FPGAs (that’s...
Sybase and QuantHouse Team On Algorithmic Trading Strategies
Sybase and QuantHouse have formed a strategic alliance to jointly deliver a solution for back testing and regression testing for algorithmic trading strategies. The solution will enable financial services organizations to manage back testing on virtually any set of real-time and historic market data, the partners say. Central to this offering will be the ability...
The Low Latency Canary
The one constant in the world of financial markets IT is that nothing stays the same for very long. The world of market data feeds and the applications that process them is no exception. As data rates increase, and as processing systems (or any component of them) are upgraded and modified, performance can be hit....
Datafeed Dilemma
Q: When is a datafeed not a datafeed? A: When it’s a datafeed handler. When we were compiling our wonderful report Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: Low Latency Architectures And Building Blocks For Tomorrow’s Trading Applications, we included profiles of vendors who sell datafeed handlers. At first, we left out Reuters Data Feed Direct because...
Low Latency Crowd Braces For Hardware Acceleration
The era of software-based market data systems running on generic server and desktop hardware is now well through its second decade. The lifeblood of any large trading floor flows through the veins of its digital data distribution system. When the flow stops, all hell breaks loose. Our firm, TSAssociates, is in the business of preventing...