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Some market participants are already able to execute trades at FTL speeds.

http://www.nanex.net/Research/fantaseconds/fantaseconds.html

I'd like to use their hardware so that my parallel code can receive messages before they are sent.

I seriously question the quality of nanex infrastructure in general ... they may have had a clock shift (if they left NTP running)

that article is a lot of ass. the timestamps in the packet are generated at the exchange(not on the wire) where its on different physical machines... perfectly reasonable for each machines clock o be a microseccond or two off.. about the resolution of GPS time sync.

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