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The real money will be made connecting global markets due to the insane low latency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQ8xEWjnBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

by cronix 7y ago

The real money will be made connecting global markets due to the insane low latency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQ8xEWjnBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQ8xEWjnBs

nugga 7y ago
I bet plenty of online gamers would like to play globally with good latency instead of being confined to local regions.
hliyan 7y ago
Going from 60ms to 40ms for a transatlantic hop isn't quite that significant IMO. An HFT organization will simply co-locate their compute servers in the same continent as the exchange. Actually, they will colocate their servers in the same geographic neighborhood, if not within the very same data center. Source: was HFT systems dev for 10 years.
- thechao 7y ago
  So, there’s no benefit to 20ms of cross-market arbitrage? You can’t colocate in London and New York.
  - Misdicorl 7y ago
    There's huge advantage and parent is super duper wrong
  - wbl 7y ago
    The competition is point to point microwave links.
    - zone411 7y ago
      Actually, it might be the good old shortwave radio: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/wall-street-tries-shortwave-radio-to-make-highfrequency-trades-across-the-atlantic https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/wall-st...
    - phil21 7y ago
      Across the Atlantic?