<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I thought that it was common knowledge that even tiny increments of time were worth it - I've seen articles about trading houses vying for getting their equipment into the same building as the network infrastructure to minimize latency, or the rental prices for the building around the ISP going up as trading houses fought over them<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Nah. They use cat6 b. It's just like cat but it's made by the monster speaker wire company and costs $1B per millisecond of delay.</p>
<p dir="ltr">MUWAHAHAHA!</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 2, 2014 12:19 AM, "H P Ladds" <<a href="mailto:householdwords@gmail.com" target="_blank">householdwords@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Fun article. That's how they slowed down billionaire bad guys? Intentionally increasing and controlling network latency by using really long coils of wire -- you're putting me on. I wonder if they use simple Cat 5/6 on Wall Street?<div>
<br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Preston L.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com" target="_blank">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Those who watch their own stock portfolios probably need to read this article from the NYT on how one really bright guy figured out how the stock market REALLY works. Or, to put it another way, a few milliseconds are more important than you imagine.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/flash-boys-michael-lewis.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/flash-boys-michael-lewis.html</a></p>
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