Re:A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Tradi...
by twic on Sunday March 10, 2019 @07:29PM
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Fermilab is literally a couple of miles from the CME datacentre in Aurora. They must have some old accelerators they aren't using.
The original Kamiokande detector is still in the ground at the Kamioka Observatory, as far as i know. Hasn't been used for science since the '80s. That's about 300 km from either Tokyo or Osaka, so you probably still need microwaves at that end.
Now you just have to think of a trade with a signal in Chicago and an instrument in Japan. The CME has Nikkei futures, but they follow the ones in Osaka. Osaka has Dow Jones futures, which presumably follow the ones in Chicago, but the volume in Osaka is pretty small. Your best best is probably FX - both Chicago and Tokyo have dollar/yen futures with good volume.
So, who is already doing this, and how long have they been doing it?
The original Kamiokande detector is still in the ground at the Kamioka Observatory, as far as i know. Hasn't been used for science since the '80s. That's about 300 km from either Tokyo or Osaka, so you probably still need microwaves at that end.
Now you just have to think of a trade with a signal in Chicago and an instrument in Japan. The CME has Nikkei futures, but they follow the ones in Osaka. Osaka has Dow Jones futures, which presumably follow the ones in Chicago, but the volume in Osaka is pretty small. Your best best is probably FX - both Chicago and Tokyo have dollar/yen futures with good volume.
So, who is already doing this, and how long have they been doing it?