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Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:52:25 -0400

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:
On 23/03/2012 15:16, Joel jaeggli wrote:
Notwithstanding how bad an idea high speed trading from the vantage
point of those who don't participate in it, 60ms would place you at a
competitive disadvantage to traders that are collocated at or near the
exchange, such that if you're engaged in an arbitrage activity between
two markets someone can frontrun your front-running.

I'd be quite interested in seeing the MTTR for a sub-ice cable break which
happened in late october.

hopefully it's harder to drag an anchor then ... so it won't happen? :)


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