True enough, but as you say, they can watch your API calls. You better make sure it looks like a human making those calls for his charting program!
A lot of the burden is being placed on the vendors, as Robert alludes to with what is being done with the Sterling and LSPD APIs. And since you...
What makes you so sure IB's consolidated data is OK? Couldn't NYSE argue the data is "derived"?
Look you guys, maybe you can draw charts, maybe you can't. But the main purpose of an API is to place computer generated orders and that's what...
This is no joke. Individual automated traders are seeing their monthly costs go from 500-2K/month to 10-20K/month. Small traders cannot absorb...
The fast players can execute in well under 1 ms. Whether mom and pops latency is at 200ms or 400ms is irrelevant. Thats not even counting the time...
I think you're really confused about the infrastructure involved. The HFT servers are in the same facilities as the exchanges and have been for...
You do realize that HFT's don't use the internet, right? The outcome of net neutrality has nothing to do with HFT. The latency disadvantage you're...
I think I heard he's working at Tim Hortons now. That could be just bs, not sure.
I'd recommend OCAML.
Green Mountain Analytics has a platform that is very competitive with Sterling for prop traders. Their API is socket based, uses text strings for...
How was New Zealand?
I was under the impression he's now based in Costa Rica.
I don't think this master of the universe would last more than a day in a classroom, cubicle or construction site. Especially once he finds out...
It's a onetime snapshot of the current quote. It only fires once.
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