About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

A-Team Insight Blogs

One Trading Firm’s View of Low Latency

Subscribe to our newsletter

Presenting a session covering “Insights on Low Latency Execution Practices” at the HFT World conference in Chicago today, Alex Dziejma, principal and chief architect at Dymaxion Capital, pegged a definition of low latency trading as 20 microseconds “tick to trade.”

Dziejma went on to suggest that the definition will shift to less than 10 microseconds for next year, and as low as a single microsecond for certain trades by 2014.  Dymaxion Capital’s proprietary trading system currently clocks in at five microseconds, he added.

Seeking low latency is important at Dymaxion in order to reduce slippage on trades constructed by its algorithms. To this end, it has shunned vendor solutions as too slow and costly.

Dziejma’s advice to other firms looking to build systems is to avoid the C# and Java programming languages, and to use binary order protocols instead of FIX.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Recorded Webinar: Enhancing trader efficiency with interoperability – Innovative solutions for automated and streamlined trader desktop and workflows

Traders today are expected to navigate increasingly complex markets using workflows that often lag behind the pace of change. Disconnected systems, manual processes, and fragmented user experiences create hidden inefficiencies that directly impact performance and risk management. Firms that can streamline and modernise the trader desktop are gaining a tangible edge – both in speed...

BLOG

Liquidnet Targets Bilateral Trading’s “New Normal” with Buy-Side Solution

Liquidnet, the agency execution specialist, has launched a new solution aimed at providing European buy-side traders with more effective access to bilateral liquidity. The move comes as bilateral trading has grown to become a significant component of the European equity market, accounting for close to 50% of total market volumes, according to a recent report...

EVENT

Data Management Summit New York City

Now in its 15th year the Data Management Summit NYC brings together the North American data management community to explore how data strategy is evolving to drive business outcomes and speed to market in changing times.

GUIDE

AI in Capital Markets: Practical Insight for a Transforming Industry – Free Handbook

AI is no longer on the horizon – it’s embedded in the infrastructure of modern capital markets. But separating real impact from inflated promises requires a grounded, practical understanding. The AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2025 provides exactly that. Designed for data-driven professionals across the trade life-cycle, compliance, infrastructure, and strategy, this handbook goes beyond...