Getting in the queue first wins the trade. Ultra low latency trading systems go to great lengths to eliminate latency between detecting an opportunity and placing an order. AdvancedIO’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express cards with programmable FPGA capability are key components in the deployment of financial trading solutions and are already in use around the world in trading platforms executing hundreds of millions of trades per day.

As the deadline for having financial controls in place looms, brokers and dealers providing naked access are moving quickly to develop their Financial Risk Management Control systems. The ultra low latency of the AdvancedIO’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express card with FPGA programmability, coupled with other built-in special features, makes it ideal to base your SEC13c3-5 Rules engine on. Do those rules checks in well under 250 nanoseconds minimizing their effect on overall latency of the trade.

The ability to build your market book and update it quickly may give your traders an edge when it comes to looking for the next trading opportunity. AdvancedIO can help you build or update your market data capture platform using our high throughput 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express cards with common protocol engines that can DMA market data updates directly into the application memory for ultra fast performance.

In order to verify and validate that trading algorithms and execution engine are performing satisfactorily and to identify areas of improvement, it is important to time stamp all traffic and use this to check latencies throughout the system. This should be done with the lowest possible overhead and delay. The AdvancedIO’s FPGA-programmable 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express card provides the features required to build a Latency measurement system.