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Electronic trading latency - The next arms race?

In financial markets, electronic trading is indispensable. Modern trading systems are so sophisticated that many transactions are completely automated. Often Buy or Sell orders are transacted automatically with zero, real-time, human intervention. Transactions involving staggering amounts of money happen in the blink of an eye.

In a real-time market, changes in price are measured in milliseconds. Network latency – the time it takes for the transaction to travel across the network from inception to completion – can literally cost (or save) companies millions of dollars. High-latency means transactions can miss the boat on optimum pricing. Low-latency, on the other hand, can be a huge competitive advantage.

To improve transaction times, you need to be able to accurately measure latency through the entire transaction path. Until recently it has been virtually impossible to do this without creating system loads that themselves add to the latency being measured.

Until now. Endace provides its customers with a solution that is scalable, high-performing, and that can capture and process data without adding additional overheads. 100% of the traffic, 100% of the time. No mistakes, no lag. It’s based on Endace’s state-of-the-art DAG-based network monitoring technology.

"One of the key attributes of a DAG-based monitoring infrastructure is that it is passive and doesn’t get in the way, says Mike Riley, Endace’s Vice President of Worldwide Marketing.

Endace’s DAG-based solutions are already helping finance companies gain a competitive edge in the latency arms race. To find out more about how Endace can give you an edge too, read the case study or email enquiries@endace.com.

For more information on how Endace’s time stamping technology works please download the DAG Time-Stamping white paper.

A-Team Supplement September 2007
Low Latency - Are you performing?
"Market data rates are skyrocketing. Just a few milliseconds make the difference between an optimal order fill and enough slippage to wipe out profit. New opportunities are opening up to leverage high frequency markets. New applications are being deployed atop of low latency architectures. Performance – in every sense – is key to playing in the new markets or being relegated to the second tier. This supplement – the first in a series – showcases some technology providers that live and breathe performance..."

Press Announcement - 19 June 2007
Endace Technology Accelerates Capture of Electronic Trades for Ultra-Low-Latency Analysis System from Trading Metrics