Algos Made Faster: MathWorks and TT Build in Direct Exchange API

As my colleagues Jake Thomases and Inside Market Data editor Max Bowie have written recently, the race to zero-latency is a tempting pursuit for many firms, but one that often implies a point of diminishing returns, and few benefits. They point out faster is not always better, and slightly faster is often not fast enough by the time it happens.

Latency, in as much as it is a quest as well as trading advantage, will always receive its due attention—but where speed is concerned there is the other