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Mad Scientists Creating Black Swans in a Lab

Industry participants discuss the capacity necessary to accommodate black swan spikes, and testing for such spikes in a lab.

Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Data Governance | 25 Apr 2012

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Mad Scientists Creating Black Swans in a Lab

Industry participants discuss the capacity necessary to accommodate black swan spikes, and testing for such spikes in a lab.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Data Governance | 25 Apr 2012

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Opening Cross: How Do You Measure Up?

Inscribed over an archway at the University of Chicago—hometown of last week’s Inside Market Data Chicago event—is Lord Kelvin’s quote “To measure is to know. If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” And in an industry so focused...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Latency | 19 Sep 2011

FIF Preps On-Demand Market Data Traffic Volume Downloads for Capacity Planning

Data industry body the Financial Information Forum is to begin making customizable datasets of historical market data traffic statistics available via its website, to make it easier for developers and those involved in capacity planning and managing direct...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 19 Sep 2011

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Max Bowie: Filtering Out the Noise

The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s recent rollercoaster ride—which, as of August 11, had changed direction each day for the prior seven trading days and posted a net change of at least 400 points for four consecutive days for the first time in history—has...

Waters | Opinion | Latency | 06 Sep 2011

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Opening Cross: Weather, Data Go to Extremes

As I write this, New York is bracing for record temperatures as the city sizzles in the midsummer heat. At the same time, the market data industry is bracing for record volumes on exchange data feeds—the Financial Information Forum’s June capacity...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Latency | 25 Jul 2011

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Exegy Adds OpenBook Ultra to MarketDataPeaks

St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant provider Exegy last week began incorporating data rates from NYSE Euronext’s low-latency, event-driven OpenBook Ultra feed for algorithmic trading into its MarketDataPeaks.com portal of historical peak data...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Delivery Technologies | 04 Jul 2011

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