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Mark
I get about 80 ms with my cable connection to your http://204.212.33.1
using ping plotter. It seems to slow down when it gets outside my cable
company onto sprintlink.net which I assume is a sprint backbone. I am very
interested to hear if you have done any comparisions with say esignal and
your direct method such that you can let us know what kind of delay we are
fighting.
Jerry.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Brown" <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 1:52 PM
Subject: Data Feeds
> Hello All,
>
> I can declare that I now the absolute fastest data feed in the world
> for TS. I have a custom Global sub Server that is hooked up directly
> to the exchanges. Yes each exchange feeds my TS directly. No not a
> data vendor feeding TS - The exchanges themselves feeding each of
> their symbols directly into TS.
>
> I will compliment IB who serves as a proxy data vendor for allowing
> the data they collect to be hooked into other applications. However
> they like a data vendor are standing between you and the exchanges.
>
> Many think as I did also that it's the Internet which has latency - it
> does very, very little. It's the data vendors themselves who are
> buffering the data and so on - It's not an Internet problem it's a
> data vendor problem.
>
> The other thing is I am directly configured to the exchanges via fixed
> IP unlike eSignal and other net data vendors.
>
> eSignal wishes you to use CM*.esignal.Com as the address yet that
> request has to go thru a dns server which adds even more to the
> latency of their feed. I will give you a pointer here, configure to go
> direct by pointing to one of the servers direct like 208.240.76.78
>
> Still even with this they are slow, they have to parse and culminate
> all the data from different exchanges and sen it to you. Even
> satellite can not possibly compete with a good net connection. I
> recently moved to into a neighborhood which has fiber optic to the
> curb just because I take my trading that seriously.
>
> I am not saying you can make money with slow feeds nor am I an
> advocate of everyone doing what I have done. I have reasons I won't go
> into right now for all this. But if you talk about fast feed net can
> not be beat. Do this - check the route times of my newly located
> server on the 15 floor of the CME building. It should return about 40
> ms time if you have a good net connection. My trip time from here is
> 20 ms. http://204.212.33.1 is the router address, no there is nothing
> there to see with a web browser, this address is to be used with
> software like VisualRoute or PingPlotter etc.
>
> So 40 ms between me and the exchange data - what beats that? I tell
> you 5 ms to my machines in the CME building. It takes that 35 ms to
> get to Texas. TradeStation securities nor IB or anyone I know of can
> match real direct exchange data to TS.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Mark mailto:markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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