High frequency trading back in the political crosshairs

Posted by on Oct 12, 2011

This week at the Futures Industry Association (FIA) conference, the hot topic is whether government regulators should force the registration and regulation of high frequency trading firms. As this Wall Street Journal article highlights, government regulators know they don’t fully understand the impact of HFT on global markets, especially how they help or hurt non-HFT traders.There is...
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Short story: New real-time trading requirements proposed

Posted by on May 6, 2011

There was an article yesterday in the Securities Technology Monitor about an SEC proposal to require real time reporting of short sales to increase timely visibility into the short positions on a given instrument. Today, this data is required to be reported monthly or bi-monthly depending on the exchange. As hedge funds and high-frequency trading have become a dominant part of trading volumes,...
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Network savvy trading with Solace and Arista LANZ

Posted by on Mar 15, 2011

We’ve had a great partnership with low latency switch vendor Arista Networks for a while now – our products complement each other very well and our companies align nicely in terms of personality and strategy. This morning we expanded our partnership as part of their announcement of a new feature called “Latency Analyzer” (abbreviated LANZ) that provides detailed real-time metrics about...
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Reason 8: Guaranteed messaging fit for the 21st century

Posted by on Mar 11, 2011

This is part 8 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. For over two decades, messaging middleware has been transporting information between distributed applications so they don’t need to be directly connected. Over the years though,...
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Reason 3: Appliances deliver huge performance gains

Posted by on Feb 15, 2011

This is part 3 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. So far I’ve talked about saving money and making life easier. The third leg in the stool of commonly recognized advantages of appliances is higher performance. There is no one...
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Visualizing statistical arbitrage using Solace

Posted by on Jan 11, 2011

Matt Davey, the head of delivery at Lab49 in Europe, has been blogging for the past couple of months about an ETF-based statistical arbitrage POC he’s building in their LabInnovation center. They are using Solace as their message bus for this project to manage market data and to drive the StatArb UI as outlined in part 7 and part 8 of his blog series. Statistical arbitrage against...
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RBC Capital Markets bets on Solace and Arista

Posted by on Dec 14, 2010

Sell-Side Technology, a publication of Waters Technology, just published an article that describes how RBC Capital Markets is bolstering their services in the global equities trading business with a new low latency trading system based on technology including our message routers and Ethernet switches from Arista Networks. Seth Gelberg, CTO of global equities and futures, discussed the strategic...
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Recapping the Solace User Group Meeting at Liquidnet

Posted by on Dec 12, 2010

Solace CTO Shawn McAllister discussing Solace’s roadmap.On Wednesday, a diverse group of technology leaders from a wide range of financial institutions gathered at the headquarters of Liquidnet in New York City to share experiences with the implementation and operation of Solace technology, and to learn about Solace’s plans for future development. Thanks to our CTO Shawn...
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Lindsay Lohan, Sigmund Freud and back office acceleration

Posted by on Dec 7, 2010

I read a news story yesterday about nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, who claims that the internet has made us a less serious and deep thinking people. The thrust of the claim by the Peruvian-born winner of this year’s prize for literature is that the internet is driving everyone to a shorter attention span focused on entertainment, at the expense of advancing deeper and more...
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Web services and messaging — better together

Posted by on Aug 3, 2010

In the late 70s, Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups struck advertising gold with a memorable campaign in which people accidentally blended chocolate and peanut butter only to discover that they were “two great tastes that taste great together!” Blogging about web services and cloud computing may not be as much fun as writing a commercial for a tasty treat, but today’s announcement that Solace...
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