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Developing High-Frequency Trading Systems

You're reading from   Developing High-Frequency Trading Systems Learn how to implement high-frequency trading from scratch with C++ or Java basics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242811
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sebastien Donadio Sebastien Donadio
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Sourav Ghosh Sourav Ghosh
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Romain Rossier Romain Rossier
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Trading Strategies, Trading Systems, and Exchanges
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of a High-Frequency Trading System FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Critical Components of a Trading System 4. Chapter 3: Understanding the Trading Exchange Dynamics 5. Part 2: How to Architect a High-Frequency Trading System
6. Chapter 4: HFT System Foundations – From Hardware to OS 7. Chapter 5: Networking in Motion 8. Chapter 6: HFT Optimization – Architecture and Operating System 9. Chapter 7: HFT Optimization – Logging, Performance, and Networking 10. Part 3: Implementation of a High-Frequency Trading System
11. Chapter 8: C++ – The Quest for Microsecond Latency 12. Chapter 9: Java and JVM for Low-Latency Systems 13. Chapter 10: Python – Interpreted but Open to High Performance 14. Chapter 11: High-Frequency FPGA and Crypto 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Important protocol concepts

When two devices need to communicate, once they have a way to transfer a signal from the sender to the recipient, we need to have protocols setting the communications rules. A protocol is like a language that two components agree to use in the system to communicate; it sets the rule of communication. The following diagram represents a network infrastructure of exchanges and trading systems:

Figure 5.8 – Trading network infrastructure of trading exchange and trading servers

In Chapter 2, The Critical Components of a Trading System, and Chapter 3, Understanding the Trading Exchange Dynamics, we saw that the trading exchange, market data-feed handlers, and market participants are the three main components of a conventional trading system.

Through gateway servers, the matching receives orders from market participants. The feed handlers get their data from the stock exchange and deliver it to interested market players with...

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