Multicast fairness in high frequency trading environments
In High Frequency Trading (HFT) environments, market data for stock prices, trading, and investments are often distributed using multicast protocols where one source sends data to multiple receivers. HFT customers demand real-time and fast connectivity to the exchange. All traders need to receive the data at the same time to execute orders with equal opportunity. The exchange distributes market data to each trader, and the assumption is that each trader receives data at the same…
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