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

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. Nick