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Can Both Microwave and Fibre Turn Up The Heat on HFT?
With trading speeds of up to 40% faster, microwave transmission looks set to be an important technology tool for high frequency traders in search of a competitive advantage, but it won’t lead to a wholesale technology change across the industry. There are limitations to microwave and this is why a combination of low latency fibre…
Datacom Panel: Life After HFT For FPGAs
High Frequency Trading, evolving applications and programming advances were key topics at “FPGA Advances in Market Trading” – a panel discussion held in New York City this week, hosted by Datacom Systems. The panel also included representation from Altera, ITRS, NovaSparks and Strike Technologies, and was moderated by Low-Latency.com. Among the issues debated was one…
Q&A: Thomson Reuters’ Rich Brown on Machine Readable News, Social Media and Sentiment
BigDataForFinance.com’s sister community – Low-Latency.com – just conducted an insightful Q&A with Rich Brown, who leads machine readable news programs at Thomson Reuters. It’s a topic that spans both low latency and big data, and you can read it here.
Nasdaq Looks to Wireless For Data Connectivity
The Nasdaq Stock Market plans to distribute its data feeds via a low-latency wireless service, and to offer wireless-delivered data to trading firms located at its Carteret, NJ co-location facility. Those plans are outlined in a filing that the exchange is required to make with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to establishing fees…
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…