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

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On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at 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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