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How to Pick the Right Hardware for HFT

How to Pick the Right Hardware for HFT This is a very common question and something you probably need to know right away. The answer depends on your budget and exchange setup, but if speed matters—and you’re not looking to blow your trading principal on FPGAs—here’s

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Surprising Lessons from Achieving Sub-Microsecond RT Latency

5 Surprising Lessons from Achieving Sub-Microsecond RT Latency When writing code for low-latency trading, many "well-known best practices" must be ignored—or even reversed. What works in theory often collapses in real-world performance. 1. Atomics Lie After extensive testing, the only atomic that remained in our code was