cme raw fix/fast feed

Discussion in 'Data Sets and Feeds' started by sma202, Apr 3, 2014.

  1. sma202

    sma202

    has anyone worked directly with the cme fix/fast feed over udp?
     
  2. baglunch

    baglunch

    Yes. Did you have a question about it?
     
  3. Surfeur

    Surfeur

    cme feed on udp ? really ?:confused:
     
  4. baglunch

    baglunch

    Most direct feeds from exchanges are multicast (udp), it's faster and saves them network bandwidth.
     
  5. Surfeur

    Surfeur

    You can lose packets in udp ?! it's problematic for trading :)
     
  6. Occam

    Occam

    They build their own error checking/stream reassembly on top of UDP. In the end it works really well, if it's done right.
     
  7. baglunch

    baglunch

    The bandwidth on the CME feed is relatively low, and you can pick and choose which product classes to subscribe to. We started on a 20, then 40, then 100meg connection with very selected products classes we dropped 1 or 2 messages a week, we upgraded as we traded more product classes. When we moved to a 1G colocated connection with all products and now a 10G we never drop packets.

    If you are concerned you can listen to the A and B channels and arbitrate the data, this way if you drop a packet you have a second chance to get it. Even if you don't do that CME is a level based feed and fixes itself very quickly unlike price or order based feeds.

    http://www.cmegroup.com/globex/files/connectivityoptions.pdf