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Renaissance Technologies Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders
- auntienomen 10y agoI'm pretty sure there is a joke here, and that the article's author is not in on it.
- buttershakes 10y agoThis is such an incredibly obvious invention, an order manager that does execution in the future across exchanges. So what? Its definitely not novel, and firms have absolutely implemented it. Anyone who has done electronic trading has come across this concept.
- cnvogel 10y agoHFT trading is so obviously time critical that I would be very, very surprised if time synchronization to the few ns level (e.g. GPS steered Rubidiums, available for a few $1000 per Rack/Network) wouldn't be standard feature on all computers involved in the timing critical end of the business already, someone please prove me wrong here...
- stolsvik 10y agoIf such a patent is granted, then the patent system is even more screwed than I imagined. (And I thought I have a pretty good imagination.)