One thing everyone should do is go to dslreports/tools and run their tweak test. It will help you set the RWIN number correctly. The defaults are...
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Yes, I'll look into a local solution that gives me fewer hops.
Of course if I did all that, then I'd probably have to be near the point of becoming a member trader.
Anyways I'd still have to get a private line in addition because the latency to Chicago alone is still fairly significant.
Not nearly enough for what you're thinking of. I'm a very small fry.
Yes. ? It takes 50ms to ping the Chicago router and 90ms (total) for the ping to IB. I thought the latency to Chi alone would be much less.
The issue is a conflict between Java and certain NIC cards, 3COM NOT being one of the problem cards. I have never heard of a problem with...
Hmm. tracert gives me 13 hops (from the midwest). I thought the servers were in CA? It goes to Chicago, then NY then Boston.
Since the packet/s which contain the order are so small the difference is speed won't matter, but it is the priority of my traffic that I'd like...
Then you equity traders should look at the fair and transparent execution of the emini. A true thing of beauty. Anyone who trades like a market...
Wait a sec. You mean in stocks the price can 'trade through' skipping over price levels with valid bids and not filling them?
My ping time to the IB servers is abt 90ms with no server being faster than the other (gw1 to gw4). That's a fairly good latency. The only...
Even in thin markets in futures, you must honor your bid. No one will trade with you if you don't honor quotes. Now there are times of the day...
In the larger exchanges, if a trader acts as a floor broker he must be a floor broker the entire day. If he acts as a local, he cannot be a floor...
In futures this would be called front running and is not permitted. Yet specialists in the NYSE (and market makers in NASDAQ too?) can do this?
This is not the era of Gordon Gekko where traders stood around the end of the day wondering which of the trades that I thought I had aren't...
I always wondered how fast it takes the CME matching engine to take up by order via IB. Now I know. I hit a bid (emini S&P) in a slow moving...
Futures exchanges are full of products that barely trade like electricity, shrimp etc... Its like a chicken and egg thing. But with electronic...
Is your broker doing some of this? From money.cnn.com... <b>Former money manager convicted: Alan Bond led to his own downfall during cross-...
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