The next bottleneck in high-speed trading is not hardware, but software — that according to BLADE Network Technologies CEO Vikram Mehta, who made the statment at the opening session of the 2010 High Performance Computing Linux Financial Markets Show and Conference in New York. In effect, he said, success in increasingly fast-moving automated markets will be dependent on how efficiently traders’ programmers write the algorithms.
The Next Bottleneck in Trading Speed: Software
April 20, 2010