Anova Technologies is taking control of a microwave wireless network connecting Equinix's key economic news distribution hub in Washington, DC to Nasdaq OMX's data centre in Carteret, NJ. In so doing, it's directly connecting news sources at lowest latency into the trading markets, allowing firms to trade from signals themselves, and not from responding to market movements driven by them. Think of it as the convergence of big data and low latency, for intelligent trading.
Trading system TBricks has rolled out a managed, hosted variant of its automated trading software, and has partnered with S&P Capital IQ to provide market connectivity and data. TBricks OnDemand has been rolled out in Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Chicago.
I often describe latency as the time it takes to move data from point A to point B, and/or the time taken to process that data at points A and B. I think it's true to say that the majority of content on this site is about moving data from A to B. But processing data - the C, or compute element, of latency is increasingly a focus.
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Liquidity is a vital, if nebulous, conundrum. For a securities exchange, it is of the essence. Traders love it. Corporate issuers consider it crucial when choosing where to list. Yet at times it can depend on nothing more substantial than market sentiment. It is proverbially ‘sticky’ - liquidity attracts liquidity, yet it can ‘dry up’ without warning. There when you don’t need it, liquidity is often missing when you do.
Australian financial trading technology vendor Zeptonics has been directed by the Federal Court of Australia to assign the ownership of certain of its products - including its ZeptoLink fanout device and ZeptoMatch matching engine - to proprietary trading firm Zomojo, which claimed ownership of them. It is considering appealing the decision, but for now it cannot sell them or support any companies using or evaluating them.
The headline states the basics that you need to know about - London on Tuesday, February 19. The Low-Latency Summit has been running in London (OK, under some aliases) since 2010, evolving along the way with a focus this spring on 'convergence' - which means how low-latency, cloud and big data technologies are combining to underping automated trading. Here's some more about what you can learn about by attending ...
Super Micro Computer last month