Techdoer Times

In this third and final part to our series Uncovering Time in the Financial Markets we'll look at clock synchronization techniques for improving the quality of time in the distributed systems that power the trade-lifecycle in the financial...

Previously I listed examples of how small intervals of time are deeply rooted in modern electronic trading strategies and regulations. Although the process of buying and selling stocks, whether in a manual environment involving specialists on the floor...

As I mentioned, the measure of small intervals of time, in the financial markets, is deeply rooted in both modern regulatory policies as well as electronic trading strategies. The SEC, FINRA and other industry regulators have innovated their way towards...

In this era of low-latency, high-performance electronic and algorithmic trading, vendors, regulators and business strategist continue to misinform and sometimes disinform industry participants with references to time. Vendors, for example, can selectively...

What and How Much? Prediction, transparency and compliance all come with a heavy storage price these days. Electronic trading applications, and specifically the algorithms that drive them, depend on access to high-quality historical data both at runtime...

Measuring message latency, especially for the data volumes and latency thresholds expected by Wall Street is tricky business these days, as we've previously covered. Even trickier is finding clarity in the midst of confusing and too many times...

Collapsing Time While the impact has already been enormous, history will show how the shift from floor-based specialist trading to electronic trading changed the way investors, specialists, investment banks, brokers, exchanges and other industry...

Exploding Message Rates Previously, we introduced the industry changes driving the technology performance problems on Wall Street. The first of these problems is growing bandwidth utilization resulting from the exploding message rates in market data...

On Your Marks... Since the start of this decade, the US financial stock markets have experienced massive industry changes resulting from regulatory, competitive and innovative forces. These changes have led market participants to engage in an all out...