TradingTech Insight White Paper
High-Performance Trading Infrastructure on Demand
Financial markets firms can no longer spend what it takes to compete in the “low latency arms race.” The new reality demands high performance to be competitive with peers, but with an emphasis on upfront deployment and ongoing operational costs. High performance is measured not simply in trading execution speed and round-trip latency figures. Those...
Measuring Latency in Equity Transactions
This white paper was written by Ixia. Ixia is the Leader in Converged IP Testing and offers solutions for higher speed gigabit Ethernet as well as testing network performance The importance of minimizing latency in data center networks has been discussed intensely in the last year, mostly with respect to trading in financial markets – where...
Viewpoints on Latency – Thought Leadership at The Cutting Edge of Electronic Trading – June 2012
Viewpoints on Latency is a regular collection of news, thought leadership and opinion from the Low-Latency.com community. Low latency is not an island. Other technologies and approaches, such as cloud and big data, all have connections into the latency world, and all will play a part in making tomorrow’s electronic trading markets profitable for players of all types....
A Flexible Approach to Market Infrastructure
The growing speed and complexity of today’s financial markets are placing all but the most technologically well-resourced participants at a strategic disadvantage. Buy- and sell-side firms, the execution venues they use, and the wide range of post-trade, market data and other service providers whose offerings they consume, are all struggling to keep up with the...
Viewpoints on Latency – Thought Leadership at The Cutting Edge of Electronic Trading – April 2012
Viewpoints on Latency is a regular collection of news, thought leadership and opinion from the Low-Latency.com community. Low latency is no longer about being the lowest, but about being as low as it takes. Relative latency leadership is now the goal of many, and technologies including managed services and cloud will be leveraged to achieve it in a...
High Frequency Trading Beats the Heat with Total Liquid Submersion Cooling
This white paper was written by Hardcore Computer. A millisecond delay can mean the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars for algorithmic traders engaged in high frequency trading (HFT) in today’s financial markets. To gain that valuable competitive edge, financial institutions require high-performance computing solutions that are fast, reliable and offer low latency. But...
Big Data Solutions in Capital Markets – A Reality Check
Big Data has emerged in recent months as a potential technology solution to the issue of dealing with vast amounts of data within the enterprise. As in other industries, financial services firms of all kinds are drowning in data, both in terms of the sheer volume of information they generate and / or have to...
High Performance Trading – FIX Messaging Testing
This white paper was written by OnX Enterprise Solutions, and others. It reports on the activity of a consortium of leading IT vendors that have joined forces to create demonstrable high performance solution stacks to address common business requirements in financial trading. The initial focus of the consortium is on a reference-able technology stack of...
Optimizing Infrastructure for Trading Performance
Automated trading in the financial markets continues to grow, as it is adopted beyond equities into other asset classes, and as its use expands globally. While some classes of automated trading – such as High Frequency Trading, Arbitrage and Market Making – continue to require a continued focus on reducing latency, from milliseconds to microseconds...
Demystifying Exchange Colocation
Colocation has established itself as the access mechanism for trading firms requiring the fastest possible execution. It’s widely accepted that for firms wanting the lowest latency access to a specific market there is no substitute for placing their trading applications as close as possible to the matching engines themselves, making it the solution of choice...