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By: Surya Gurung and Cheng-Fang Lin
NYU-Poly: FRE 7251 Algorithmic Trading & High Frequency
Finance
Dec, 16th 2013
Source: www.engadget.com
NASDAQ Connectivity &
Algorithmic Trading
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Brief History of NASDAQ.
NASDAQ Connectivity.
Algorithmic Trading.
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Nasdaq & Its History:
Nasdaq was developed by the National
Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and
began trading in 1971.(Freedman, 23)
When Nasdaq began trading in Feb 8th 1971, it
was the first electronic stock market in the
world. (3)
It connects hundreds of dealers who are
allowed to make markets in a particular stock.
(Freedman, 23)
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Nasdaq & Its History:
Nasdaq OMX group owns and operate 26 markets, 3 clearing houses,
and 5 central securities depositories over. (2)
In 2000, Nasdaq began to separate from NASD to become a public
company. (3)
In 2007, Nasdaq purchased Scandinavian exchange group called OMX
to become The NASDAQ OMX Group. (2)
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Fig 1. Source:Nasdaqomx.com
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Nasdaq Connectivity:
Trading Access
Equity Protocols
Algo Testing Facilities
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Trading Access: Any firms who needs the lowest latency data
feed,
NASDAQ OMX offers direct access to its U.S. equity and
derivatives data feed products from its U.S. data centers.
They can connect to Nasdaq U.S. data centers via
1. Co-Location
2. Wireless Connectivity
3. Extranets
4. Direct Connectivity
Investors and Traders can also access to Nasdaq data feeds
through more than 100 authorized market data redistributors.
(7)
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Trading Access:
Co-Location?
It is opportunity provided by an exchange to high frequency
firms to place their trading computers directly next to the
exchanges computers in their data centers for some fee.
Speed?
10G, 10G Ultra, and 40G Ethernet available for all Nasdaq OMX
order entry protocols and data feeds. (8)
Reduces round-trip latency by an average of 2-3
microseconds.(9)
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Trading Access:
Wireless Connectivity:
1. Metro Millimeter Wave (MMW) network
connects customers in Nasdaq data centers to traders in New York
Metro trading hubs in 40% faster than any fiber based
network.(10)
2. NASDAQ OMX, in conjunction with CME Group, recently started
providing a new wireless connectivity offering providing a direct,
low-latency microwave route between Carteret, NJ, and Aurora, IL,
for delivery of select NASDAQ and CME data up to 36% faster.
(9)
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Trading Access:
Wireless Connectivity:
MMW network.
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Latency; 201 microseconds
Latency; 197 microseconds
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Trading Access:
Extranets & Direct Connects:
Firms outside the Nasdaq OMX data
centers can connect to Nasdaq OMX data
centers through approved third party
Extranets or Direct Connect networks
providers.
The monthly co-location fees for the
Nasdaqs data center in Carteret, NJ
(where all the trading actually happens)
run up to $14,000 per month. (6)
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Equity Protocals:
Financial Information eXchange (FIX)
FIX Lite
OUCH
Routing and Special Handling (RASHport)
Nasdaq Information exchange protocol (QIX)
Computer-to-Computer Interface (CTCI)
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Equity Protocals:
FIX
1. Created by Fidelity and Salomon Brothers in
1992 to communicate electronically between
buy and sell sides. (Freedman, 247)
2. It is a vendor-neutral standard message
protocol that defines an electronic message
exchange for communicating securities
transactions between two parties. It is free and
open standard format used today by most of
U.S. firms in the options securities business.(14)
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Equity Protocals:
FIX supports message for order entry, cancel,
and modify for
1. US Equity trading
2. Option trading
3. Order routing system ACES
4. Trading reports
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Equity Protocals:
OUCH
1. This protocol allows customers to quickly enter orders into
and receive executions. OUCH subscribers and their software
developers can integrate NASDAQ into their proprietary trading
systems or build custom front-ends to NASDAQ systems.
2. OUCH accepts limit orders from system subscribers, and if
there is a matching order, they will execute. Non-matching orders
are added to the Limit Order Book, a database of available limit
orders, where they are matched in price-time priority. OUCH only
provides a method for subscribers to send orders and receive status
updates on those orders. (18)
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Equity Protocals:
RASHport
1. RASHport allows subscribers to enter orders,
cancel existing orders and receive executions while
providing smart order routing and special handling
features. RASHport also provides advanced
functionality and the ability to process sophisticated
order types including discretion, random reserve,
pegging and routing. (15)
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Equity Protocals:
CTCI
It is a method by which NASDAQ subscribers can enter
transactions, such as NASDAQ Market Center
orders and trade reports, from their computer systems
to NASDAQ's computer systems without using a
NASDAQ Workstation. CTCI interface is based on the
Common Message Switch protocol. (16)
QIX
It is an efficient protocol that allows automated, real-
time trading. QIX offers reliability in placing orders and
quotes in the NASDAQ system, while providing
improved throughput and reduced latency. (17)
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Algorithmic Trading:
It is a computarized trading using proprietary
algorithms.
Speed (fastest boat), reliability and data quality
are essential in algorithmic trading.
That is why, Nasdaq Connectivity is very
important.
Remember, it is the Nasdaqs connectivity issues
which lead to creation of Datek and eventually
Algorithmic Trading.
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Nasdaq Shutdown 3 hours:
Aug 22, 2013
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Algo Testing Facility:
NASDAQ provide next-generation Algo testing
environment offering a market-wide equities
testing platform that provides a comprehensive
testing universe well beyond just the NASDAQ
market systems.
The Algo Test Facility will provide High
Frequency traders with a safe environment to
rigorously test and calibrate their algorithmic
strategies by replaying and interacting with real
historical market data. (19)
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Conclusion:
Nasdaq changed the stock trading world by inventing the first
electronic trading system. Even though, Nasdaq has made the
electronic trading market more robust and advanced by continued
technological innovation, I think lots of challenges still remains
unsolved. Periodic news of flash crashes because of various
algorithmic glitches such as one in Aug 22nd, 2013 could cause
investor to loose their confidence in electronic trading
markets.
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16. CTCI. Nasdaq OMX. Retrieved from
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17. QIX. Nasdaq OMX. Retrieved from
https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=QIX on 12/14/13
18. OUCH. Nasdaq OMX. Retrieved from
https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=OUCH on 12/14/13
Nasdaq Testing Facilities. Nasdaq OMX. Retrieved from
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on
12/14/13
19. Chuck and Campos. Nasdaq market paralyzed by three hour
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idUSBRE97L0V420130822 on 12/14/13
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