On today's Planet Money: In high-frequency trading, people program computers to buy and sell stocks in quick succession under certain, pre-defined circumstances. The idea is to profit from fleeting ...

Computer systems, hardware and networking technologies have improved so much that two of the world’s largest trading exchanges say they have begun measuring transaction times in microseconds. What is ...

Picoseconds are the typical rate used in ultrafast optical imaging, while high-speed electronic cameras can take images at the rates of millisecond and microsecond. The research team’s spectrum ...

It’s 10 a.m. Do you know where your latencies are? In the fast-moving, fragmented marketplace in 2008, speed became an increasingly critical factor in making trading decisions. Brokers stepped up ...

Prices in financial markets can change in the blink of an eye, so the ability to execute trades faster than competitors unlocks huge competitive edge. That demands a high functioning tech stack and an ...

EVERY microsecond counts in stock trading. The New York Stock Exchange handles a third of the world’s stock trading – around 22 billion messages a day. But NYSE Euronext, which operates the exchange, ...