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High Frequency Trading Webinar

microseconds: the difference between market makers and spectators

Am hosting a webinar on reducing the latency in high frequency trading environments this coming Wednesday.  (which means, if you know me, that I am working furiously on PowerPoint slides, although I have been using Keynote more lately...)) HFT is pretty interesting to me as it is one of the markets I spend a lot of time focusing on at work and with folks from Solace Systems and Intel joining we will be chatting about how to reduce the latency, specifically on the back-end connections between feed handlers and trade logic and order execution systems.  These are usually TCP based and there is a lot of room for improvement from the base stacks and generic NICs and messaging systems people may use.

We'll do a follow-up webinar later focusing on the market data feed handlers and scalable multicast as that is very important between the exchange and the feed handlers.  If there are any other topics we should think about, let me know...

If you are interested in registering and joining a healthy chat please click here to register.  If you can't make the live webcast, no worries - we will be archiving it and enabling the VOD to be watched in arrears.