Re: raging bulls

2012-08-07 Thread Michael Painter
Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/all/ Some interesting, network-relevant content there (but for the neutrino and drone rubbish). 'Rubbish' might be a pretty strong word when you're talking about the players in this space. My favorite from the art

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:15:51PM -1000, Michael Painter wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: >> http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/all/ >> >> Some interesting, network-relevant content there (but for the >> neutrino and drone rubbish). > > 'Rubbish' might be a pretty strong word w

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Naslund, Steve
s get a fair shake. Steven Naslund -Original Message- From: Eugen Leitl [mailto:eu...@leitl.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 2:02 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: raging bulls On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:15:51PM -1000, Michael Painter wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: >> http:/

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Naslund, Steve
-Original Message- From: Chu, Yi [NTK] [mailto:yi@sprint.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:01 AM To: Naslund, Steve; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: raging bulls What prevents someone to fake an earlier timestamp? Money can bend light, sure can a few msec. yi -Original

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Naslund, Steve
to actually gain time on the system. Possibly but it would be a very tall order. Steve -Original Message- From: Chu, Yi [NTK] [mailto:yi@sprint.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:01 AM To: Naslund, Steve; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: raging bulls What prevents someone to fake

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Naslund, Steve
although I supposed real estate on Mt Everest could get very valuable (closer to the satellites) :) Steve -Original Message- From: Brett Frankenberger [mailto:rbf+na...@panix.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:08 AM To: Naslund, Steve Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: raging bulls On

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 08:52:51AM -0500, Naslund, Steve wrote: > It seems to me that all the markets have been doing this the wrong way. > Would it now be more fair to use some kind of signed timestamp and > process all transactions in the order that they originated? Perhaps > each trade could ha

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:08:18AM -0500, Naslund, Steve wrote: > Also, we are only talking about a delay long enough to satisfy the > longest circuit so you could not push your timestamp very far back and > would have to get the fake one done pretty quickly in order for it to be > worthwhile. The

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Ryan Malayter
"Naslund, Steve" wrote: > It seems to me that all the markets have been doing this the wrong way. > Would it now be more fair to use some kind of signed timestamp and > process all transactions in the order that they originated? Perhaps > each trade could have a signed GPS tag with the absolute t

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread joel jaeggli
On 8/8/12 6:52 AM, Naslund, Steve wrote: It seems to me that all the markets have been doing this the wrong way. Would it now be more fair to use some kind of signed timestamp and process all transactions in the order that they originated? Given an uneven distribution of sizes it's kind of hard t

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Naslund, Steve
enough to actually gain time on the system. Possibly but it would be a very tall order. Steve -Original Message- From: Chu, Yi [NTK] [mailto:yi@sprint.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:01 AM To: Naslund, Steve; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: raging bulls What prevents someone to

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Michael Loftis
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > Even if you execute the trades based on a GPS timestamp (I'm ignoring > all the logistics of preventing cheating here), it doesn't matter, > because the computer that got the information first will make the > trading decision first. > >

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Naslund, Steve
[mailto:s...@snar.spb.ru] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:46 AM To: Naslund, Steve Cc: Alexandre Snarskii Subject: Re: raging bulls On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:08:18AM -0500, Naslund, Steve wrote: > Also, we are only talking about a delay long enough to satisfy the > longest circuit so you

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread adam vitkovsky
...@medline.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 4:14 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: raging bulls It is a tough technical problem to be sure but not insurmountable. Think about a system in which the real time market data is also encrypted in such a way that it can only be decrypted at a particular

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Naslund, Steve
the cards or you would not see the high cost specialized networks from Chicago to NYC. Steve -Original Message- From: joel jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:23 AM To: Naslund, Steve Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: raging bulls On 8/8/12 6:52 AM

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Naslund, Steve
ed before when you needed a guy standing on the floor in order to operate. Steve -Original Message- From: Michael Loftis [mailto:mlof...@wgops.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:56 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: raging bulls On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Brett Frankenberg

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread John Levine
>Here is another thought. Many people think that the rapid computer >trading does not really add any value to the market in any case since >there is no long term investment. It clearly doesn't. A proposal that's been kicking around for a while is to clear all trades once a second, so everyone ha

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Naslund, Steve
subject which would be the network implications of this so I will curtail the general discussing of HFT. Steve -Original Message- From: John Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 10:54 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Cc: Naslund, Steve Subject: Re: raging bulls >

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:08:27 -0500, Brett Frankenberger said: > What it's about is allowing traders to arbitrage between markets. When > product A is traded in, say, London, and product B is traded in New > York, and their prices are correlated, you can make money if your > program running in NY

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-09 Thread David Walker
http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html One of my favourite nerd talks. Although largely about trading algorithms it covers trading networks ... Best wishes.

RE: raging bulls

2012-08-11 Thread Chu, Yi [NTK]
What prevents someone to fake an earlier timestamp? Money can bend light, sure can a few msec. yi -Original Message- From: Naslund, Steve [mailto:snasl...@medline.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:53 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: raging bulls It seems to me that all the