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QuantHouse is finalising access to Russia’s Micex and RTS exchanges for its high frequency trading clients in the wake of a partnership forged with Russian financial giant Otkritie. In turn, Otkritie will use a QuantHouse market data feed and the company’s QuantFactory automated trading platform to support its own clients trading on the Russian exchanges.
In a move that could establish an enabling technology for those interested in latency arbitrage, ITRS Group has released Feed Latency Monitor (FLM), a plug-in to its Geneos platform that lets users analyse relative latencies of real-time data feeds in real time.
By Jeff Wells
Exegy
Co-chair FIF Market Data Capacity Working Group
2010 is now well behind us and most of the market data stats are in. So it is time to look back to assess the past and to look into the capacity planning crystal ball.
There is a vast array of data from the Financial Information Forum provided mostly by the exchanges as well as historical data from www.marketdatapeaks.com that is worth perusing.
Chicago-based SpryWare recently announced its ticker plant can process 10 million messages per second. Low-Latency.com talked to the company’s co-founder Daniel May about the market data explosion, how SpryWare is responding, and trends for 2011.
In its first Elektron release since last September, Thomson Reuters has unveiled a low-latency data feed offering for the increasingly fragmented Japanese market. The new Elektron feed will provide access to real-time market data from the growing number of Japanese execution venues and platforms, including the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Arrowhead, SBI Japannext, Chi-X Japan, Kabu.com, the Osaka Securities Exchange/Jasdaq and TDX+ Options.
The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) - via its Openmarketdata.org initiative - has released a free, open source, data feed handler for the Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) consolidated feed.
Redline Trading Solutions has added a managed service option for its InRush 10G accelerated ticker plant through a tie-up with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and managed applications host Options IT. This is Redline’s first foray into managed services, but is not expected to be its last, as it moves with the trend, particularly among small trading operations, to offload technology and focus on strategy (see other Redline news from earlier this year here).



















So Toronto’s TMX Group just let it be known that it’s using Solace Systems’ message routers to distribute its market data. That makes it the second Canadian exchange group to go public with such news, following CNSX Markets, which revealed its planned adoption last September.
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