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Prescient Ridge Management Tries On Made-to-Measure From Connamara Systems
Managed futures fund Prescient Ridge Management (PRM) is turning to Connamara Systems and its Made-to-Measure trading suite to support its expansion into new markets, using new trading strategies. Made-to-Measure (MtM) bridges build versus buy development approaches by providing pre-built components that can be augmented by proprietary code to form complete trading systems. PRM currently trades…
Financial Markets Data Centres Survive Sandy Devastation
Judging by feedback from various industry people in the New York City region, the principle data centres serving the financial markets survived the onslaught of Monday night’s Hurricane Sandy without any problems. One exception was a power issue at the 111 8th Avenue carrier hotel. Several data centres remain on generator power, though fuel deliveries…
Cisco and Friends Publish Real World Latency Statistics for Nexus 3548 Switch
Cisco Systems has teamed with a group of market data feed handler, latency management and integration vendors to produce an early set of real world latency statistics for its recently introduced Nexus 3548 switch. Apart from Cisco, the latency testing – which comprised a proof-of-concept implementation to show end-to-end latency validated with real-time market data…
Lightweight Internet Protocol Stack
Free white paper, authored by GE Intelligent Platforms IP traffic is increasing globally at a breath-taking place. In order to support the demand of high performance IP packet processing particularly for High Frequency Trading applications demanding low latency and higher throughput, users and developers are adopting a novel approach of combining PCI Express packet processing…
Exegy Delivers Data Tone in Mahwah and Aurora
Exegy has made its Data Tone service, providing low-latency market data, available at NYSE Euronext’s Mahwah, NJ data centre, and at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s data centre in Aurora, Il. Data Tone provides low cost feeds as a service, leveraging Exegy’s ticker plant. At Mahwah, Exegy is offering access to NYSE data feeds, and in…
Telx Lowers Latency to NYSE Mahwah
Proximity data centre operator Telx is tapping into new fibre routes from Cross River Fiber to lower latency to NYSE Euronext’s Mahwah, NJ data centre. Cross River’s new fibre runs directly through Clifton, NJ where Telx operates its existing NJR2 data centre, with NJR3 under construction. The fibre then runs on to Secaucus, NJ (where…
Redline and Intel Highlight Proposed STAC-T1 “Tick to Trade” Benchmark
Redline Trading Solutions and Intel are highlighting performance benchmarks for the latest versions of Redline’s ticker plant and execution gateway software, conducted using the proposed STAC-T1 test harness designed to measure “Tick to Trade” latency. STAC-T1 – as administered along with other benchmarks by the Securities Technology Analysis Center – measures the latency of a…
Q&A: October’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
More questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community e-mail bag, with some thoughts from me. Q: Profits are down at HFT firms, and regulation of them looks to be on the increase. What does than mean for low-latency technology spend? A: I am sure there will be an impact, but I also expect investment in low latency…
Exegy/StreamBase Partner For Big Data and Low Latency
Linking its hardware accelerated ticker plant to StreamBase System’s complex event processing (CEP) software, Exegy is addressing different trading strategies with one solution, says chief scientist Scott Parsons. “Is this a play about big data or low latency? The answer is yes.” The Exegy to StreamBase link was made possible by leveraging published APIs for…
Q&A: Interxion’s Patrick Lastennet on Demand For Co-Lo, Clouds and Big Data
We’ve been seeing a continued focus on companies that offer data centres for co-location and proximity, and how they are proving attractive offerings to trading firms needing to navigate an increasing regulatory landscape, and also to vendors looking to tap into liquidity hubs. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Interxion’s director of marketing and business development for financial…