In the world of the financial markets, securing an edge over the competition can mean life or death for a trading firm. Whether it is acting on news alerts or price movements, determining the best trading opportunity, or delivering an order to the marketplace, microseconds mean the difference between winning or just playing.
Reducing those microseconds – referred to as latency – is a continuing focus of trading firms, and an increasing challenge as that latency is pushed down to double and single digit microseconds. The “race to zero” becomes increasingly difficult and expensive to engage in as it nears its conclusion.