“In today’s marketplace, there is no room for error, data omission, latency or excuses when it comes to market data. After we had been a customer of Hyperfeed for five years and S&P Comstock for two, I had come to the realization that to get market data “right”, I was [...]
“Making sure that we are getting a “complete picture” of the day’s trading activity is an essential requirement for our “black box” application and website development efforts. NxCore made that possible and they did 90% of the work for us. Using the NxCore data API’s and the provided application programming [...]
“The system you’ve created is very impressive! I’m already developing on it for a Federal government agency and am looking forward to analyzing the market feed in the coming weeks.”
“I’ve been in the business for 17 years mainly doing arbitrage type trading. It has always been a major ongoing issue getting a reliable data feed at a decent price. Over this time I have used just about every product on the market, and since I found NxCore the issues [...]
“I want to thank Nanex and Eric Hunsader for providing the trade and quote data for the options and their underlying stocks. I use these data in my doctorate thesis at UIUC which can be found at SSRN (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1963865). I thank Nanex in the acknowledgment section of the paper, but [...]
“For over a dozen years we have relied on the backend technology of NxCore – now powered by financial data from QUODD – to deliver real-time low latency stock and option price quotes to our demanding customer base. Bottom line, IT WORKS day in day out. The elegant data compression [...]
Nanex ~ 25-Mar-2013 ~ eMini Algo Disaster on 14-Jan-2008 On January 14, 2008, in the early hours of trading, prices of the March 2008 eMini (ES) futures contract began oscillating rapidly. After about 4 seconds and 100 oscillations, the price swings widened to the equivalent of about 400 points on [...]
Nanex ~ 14-Mar-2013 ~ Disrupting Markets One way to measure whole-market intraday volatility is by summing the changes in the NBBO (National Best Bid/Offer) in all stocks. The animation below shows changes to the NBBO Spread each second in NMS Stocks over a 9 minute period around noon (ET) between [...]
Nanex ~ 28-Feb-2013 ~ The Chicago PMI Trading Frenzy According to Bloomberg, the Chicago PMI numbers are released at 9:45:00 ET. For a fee, you can elect to receive the data 3 minutes earlier, and according to our data, those that do, are a powerful force in the market. The charts [...]
Nanex ~ 15-Nov-2012 ~ Dangerous Order Types One of the best things you can do to minimize latency on a network is to make sure you don't send more information than it can carry. This basic common sense seems to be lost on the exchanges and regulators. Take Direct Edge's [...]