Light is not fast enough for high-speed stock trading
01 October 2011 by Jeff Hecht
Magazine issue 2832. Subscribe and save
Stripping back automated computer trading could shave milliseconds off trades – perfect for traders out to make their millions
EVERY microsecond counts in stock trading. The New York Stock Exchange handles a third of the world's stock trading - around 22 billion messages a day. But NYSE Euronext, which operates the exchange, wants it to get even faster.
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