TradingTech Insight White Paper
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...
Architectures for Extreme Low Latency
In recent years, a combination of regulatory reforms, market structure evolution and technology innovation have combined to create a new paradigm for the global financial trading markets; one in which the speed at which transactions can be executed is fundamental to the success of market participants. Put simply, for such a participant – be it...
Viewpoints on Latency – Towards Zero Latency – June 2011
Trading firms continue to invest significant sums in low-latency technologies, with connectivity and co-location being a big focus, and a large proportion of IT budgets. Reducing propagation latency from the trading chain – by going with the fastest network provider and installing systems in co-location data centres – remains for many the simplest approach to...
Optimising Value from High Performance Connectivity
High frequency trading (HFT) is now a term recognised by the mainstream. This wide familiarity has coincided with maturity of HFT practices, the explosion in their use, and a flattening out of the potential returns as competition increases. Early adopters of HFT were able to leverage high-performance technologies to generate vast returns. Today, the environment...
Viewpoints on Latency – I Am Not a Number – May 2011
The “Three Ms of Latency” are a set of essential steps that turn the data that’s derived from a roster of tools – including those from contributors Corvil and TS-Associates – into meaningful, actionable information that can be leveraged to boost one’s business. The Three Ms of Latency are: Measure, Monitor and Manage. It all...