Re:Ask HN: What programming skills are required by HFT or Tr...
by lucozade on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:49AM
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Bugs have been known to cause some fairly major blow outs [0].
It's pretty/very rare for malicious code/data to get involved because this sort of thing is almost always co-hosted with the exchange. There's nowhere really to inject yourself. I'm sure it happens in other parts of the process, just not much in the very low latency parts.
It's pretty/very rare for malicious code/data to get involved because this sort of thing is almost always co-hosted with the exchange. There's nowhere really to inject yourself. I'm sure it happens in other parts of the process, just not much in the very low latency parts.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_stoc...