Most solutions of this type are an order of magnitude higher than that. It's very easy to spend $20k/mo. To give an idea of scale / endpoint, a top-tier HFT i

Most solutions of this type are an order of magnitude higher than that. It's very easy to spend $20k/mo. To give an idea of scale / endpoint, a top-tier HFT infrastructure costs on the order of $100k/day. There are probably only a half dozen total of those in the world, though.