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The Pitfalls of Data Feeds for Exchange Prices

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:55 am
by kreslik.news

If the trading platform is the heart of your brokerage business, the data feed is its veins. The quality of the source of the quote stream affects the entire trading process and subsequently the broker’s revenue. Poor data feeds may provoke platform abusers to perform their arbitrage strategies, which may lead a broker to substantial losses. The importance of the qualitative data feed shouldn’t be underestimated. That’s why in this post I want to draw your attention to the problems that you may face with feeds.

Before we start I should mention that the [i]problems we are going to discuss hardly ... (read more)