…HFT) case, the relative latency of competing firms performing similar trade execution strategies. The HFT applications work regardless of the absolute latency... but an HFT firm can?t make money unless they execute their trades more quickly, relative to the competition. With the exception of the HFT…

Today over on the Verizon Business ?Think Forward? blog, Ciena CTO Steve Alexander has a new guest post where he discusses the high-frequency trading (HFT) market?s near addiction with lowering network latency.  The post comes after last week?s announcement by Verizon Business regarding their new low…

…important?  A: High Frequency Trading gets a lot of attention, but really there are a lot of different strategies that get lumped together under HFT.  Low latency is important for a simple reason:  Prices are continuously fluctuating, and prices in one place (e.g. the futures markets in…