Immense market data volumes and a relentless latency race to zero has created plenty of challenges for high (and low) frequency trading firms as they attempt to trade modern markets.

Crowded trades, indifferent regulators, diminishing margins, the latency arms race, and the need to get the right kind of silicon enhancements were just some of the challenges being discussed at High Frequency Trading for Fund Management Firms 2011.

28 February 2011 – Latency measured in nanoseconds, FPGA’s, ongoing systemic risk and worries over knee-jerk regulatory changes, were just some of the topics discussed at this year’s HiFreq Trade Conference in London.

Anatomy of an Algo in our Q1-2011 issue describes an intelligent liquidity seeking algo attempting to get a large order executed in a small cap Austrian stock.