From: Adrian Midgley
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Sent: Thursday, 15 September 2011, 17:50
Subject: Re: [LUG] Trading and IT.
On 15 September 2011 09:41, Gordon Henderson <gordon+
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>> I wonder if synchronising it to a clock tick rather than just piling
>> trades in would be better.
>
> NTP is good. Direct reference to GPS is better (but at the whim of the US
> govt.)
>
> However these people are delaing in sub millisecond transactions - verging
> on the microsecond level now... Or at least their computers are.
I mean that instead of it being chaos, run it in turns, or bounds as
some games apparently do.
The turns
could be quite short - 1 second for instance, or 100ms or whatever.
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