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It seems reasonable that the people optimizing code and writing the most efficient infrastructure are not the same folks who actually write trading algorithms.
by mad 16y ago
It seems reasonable that the people optimizing code and writing the most efficient infrastructure are not the same folks who actually write trading algorithms. Now, supposedly a big part of trading firm's success is that its algorithms are faster than the competition's. So are the low-level infrastructure people paid as well as the algorithm folks?
- ig1 16y agoNo is the basic answer. Low-level optimization while a valuable skill is more of a commodity, algorithm development tends to require a combination of skills in maths, finance, programming and creativity which is a much rarer combination. Saying that people who are good at low-level optimizations are still pretty well paid.