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Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:52:21 +0000

On 23/03/2012 15:16, Joel jaeggli wrote:
Notwithstanding how bad an idea high speed trading from the vantage
point of those who don't participate in it, 60ms would place you at a
competitive disadvantage to traders that are collocated at or near the
exchange, such that if you're engaged in an arbitrage activity between
two markets someone can frontrun your front-running.

I'd be quite interested in seeing the MTTR for a sub-ice cable break which
happened in late october.

Nick


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