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Q&A: November’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
The Low-Latency Summit in New York City the other week created a lot of discussion and lots of questions to me. So here is a sampling from that busy day, along with my thoughts. Q: One of the conference sessions was focused on latency reduction and ROI. What was your take away from that? A:…
FIX Protocol Proposes Standards to Support a European Consolidated Tape
FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) has recommended standards to support the consolidation of trade reports and market data in European equity markets. It suggests the standards could play into the European consolidated tape mandated by MiFID and accelerate discussion about similar standards for fixed income and derivatives markets. The recommended standards are the result of work…
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…
Fixnetix and Asperatus Capital Tap NovaSparks For HFT
Fixnetix and its long-time customer Asperatus Capital have tapped NovaSparks to provide them with ultra-low-latency direct market data via its FPGA-accelerated Matrix appliances. That data is used to fuel HFT strategies. Founded in 2009 in London, Asperatus is an established customer of Fixnetix, which provides it with infrastructure, hosting, co-location and connectivity services to a…
Q&A: Bruce Tolley of Solarflare on Customised Compute
Marrying compute power with low-latency network communications is increasingly necessary for financial applications looking to combine intelligence with outright speed. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke with Bruce Tolley, vice president of solutions marketing at Solarflare Communications to get his take on this emerging trend. Q: What is the ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE), and how is it related to your…
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…
Digital Reasoning, Tableau, Cloudera Focus Unstructured Data Analytics on Financial Markets
Partnering with Tableau Software for data visualisation, and leveraging Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution for storage, Digitial Reasoning is applying its Synthesys unstructured data analytics platform at financial markets applications. Synthesys takes structured and unstructured text as input and then uses named entity recognition, understanding of time and geographic references, combined with patented relationship analysis, to develop…
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…