What are the current costs at ETG? 1 cent? Or is it volume scaled like Echo and Bright? What's a bullet cost there these days?
Avalanche, The software is just not as fast as Hammer. Tradecast was even a bit faster than Gr8trade. I have played with hammer and thought it was lightning quick. The Watcher is also incredibly quick, but I hate the overall platform. The eyes client is such a bandwidth intensive product that it is even a bit slow over a T1 (though I may be being a bit picky ) I have always been a scalper, first on Nas and then on NYSE, so every millisecond counts, and I can tell a bit of a difference between my executions and some friends of mine on other platforms. Why haven't I switched? I guess because I am comfortable and used to the software, though I am entertaining the idea of switching to another platform. I have traded on 3 platforms and played with 5.
It is very difficult to say why it was faster on software than the other if other things were not kept constant, i.e., the connection to the Internet. That is, if the way you were able to discern that one was faster than the other was as a result of comparing two different software on different connections, _that_ is too much of an unknown to do a scientific test. For example, your connection to the server may have been P2P, or perhaps the route that your friend goes thru has a bad router in between him and his broker, etc. Keeping all things constant, it _is_ possible to write software that is faster than another though... nitro
Yes, You are probably upgrading to ILX or Hyperfeed [probably thru a P2P T1 or T3,] both of which broadcast the entire market per "pulse." nitro
just curious, how do you guys like instinet so far??? what do the listed traders think of gr8trade??? do traders have a choice of staying with redi+????
You would think they would, but after numerous requests all I can get is "It's on the list, but not a priority." Really frustrating...
I trade through the Pro-trader platform for about 2 months. Not Bad, but I than got set up with The Sterling platform and really saw a difference. The office data lines were quicker and I got more NYSE order off. The overall performance was excellent and blows away REDI, Realtick, and AT. Anyone else trade off the Sterling platform???????