(City AM) IN the high-frequency forex-trading sphere, it is latency of executions that grabs the headlines – that is the delay between an order being sent to a venue, and the venue executing that order. But as Dan Habscher, industry marketing manager for Progress Software points out, investing in low latency trading execution systems is simply your stake to buy a place at the high-frequency trading (HFT) table: “Ultra low latency is not enough in itself to make you a contender. You need to look beyond that to get the edge in the market.” So where should institutions look to eke out the most from their trading systems?
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