Author Khaled Aly argues that hardware-based decimal-floating-point arithmetic (DFPA) offerings deliver better FPGA performance for low-latency trading than native binary floating-point arithmetic or software-based DFPA. Via EE Times.
Tag: low latency
Architecture, Regulations
Brokers, Synchronize Your Watches
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•Traders magazine has published a short piece on whether brokerages could meet the 50-millisecond drift window for their server clocks proposed by FINRA.
Current Events, Fi-Tech Culture, Regulations
Market Structure Documentary Comes to the Silver Screen
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•Tired of explaining to friends and family that many of Wall Street’s latest fiascos aren’t due to conspiracies but to technology? Wait a few more months and take them to see the market structure documentary that Arbitrage Pictures plans to release next Spring. The movie, Ghost Exchange, examines what happens what happens when trading speeds and complexity outpace regulatory…
Architecture, Regulations
Proprietary Market Data Feed Design Costs NYSE Euronext $5 Million
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•Electronic traders know that milliseconds of latency can cost them a lot. Now, NYSE Euronext know that too. Without admitting or denying allegations by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Exchange, NYSE Euronext officials announced on Sept. 14th that the exchange agreed to pay a $5 million penalty to settle latency discrepancies between two of its…
Regulations, Trading
You May Be a High Frequency Trader If…
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•Earlier this week, one of the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) working committees presented the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) a proposed four-point definition of high-frequency trading. It’s important to remember that this definition is nothing more than a recommendation to the CFTC. As CFTC Commissioner Scott O’Malia stated publicly in the past, the working…