


The HFT’s have to continue to beat each other which means continuing to reinvest all those profits that they are skimming from the institutional and retail investors to make sure they can keep skimming those profits in the future.


So, why the need to get even faster? Every article will talk about the need for speed but what they won’t talk about is why it is needed. Liquidity, right? But we thought those HFT geniuses had already done that when they were operating in microseconds. Speed must be helping to shrink spreads and add With all the manpower and cost involved, this need for speed must be helping everyone. We have no idea what this means but it sure sounds fast. “Performance benchmarks have demonstrated average end-to-end one-way application latencies of 384 nanoseconds for intra-host communication using shared memory transport and 3.1 microseconds using RDMA transport over InfiniBand.” That’s billionths of a second for all you turtles out there who still are operating in microseconds. Apparently, TIBCO just took the lead in the Wall Street speed race and is now measuring latency in nanoseconds. We read one yesterday in the FT titled “ Tibco moves trading into nanoseconds“. We are constantly reading articles about the “insatiable” need for speed on Wall Street. It’s all about speed now in the trading world. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pop quiz.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2019 In one instance, fans recognized the North Carolina singer right away, while in another interaction, Church put concert goers on the spot with a little pop quiz about his first number one hit and his cover wasn't blown the entire time. 2020 From squishing the bug with their back foot to level swings, the kids appeared to ace their pop quizzes. 2020 Marcus, a prominent critic of AI hype, gave the neural network a pop quiz. 2020 For now, fliers are getting the equivalent of an honor-system pop quiz at check-in on most airlines and, sometimes, a temperature check. 2021 Writer and teacher Colman McCarthy begins each school year with a pop quiz – and a cash prize.ĬBS News, 29 Nov. 2021 The program will open with a citizenship pop quiz, which encourages viewers to think about what those not born in this country must learn in order to become Americans. 2021 Coaches relish how the balancing act that requires Parsons to study for two tests also demands opposing offensive coordinators remain ready for a pop quiz. Recent Examples on the Web The first group date surprises the men with a pop quiz.
