Altair Engineering, Inc. All Rights Reserved. / altair.com / Nasdaq: ALTR / Contact Us SOLUTIONS FLYER Microseconds Matter Trading firms know that despite the fact that latency is typically quantified in microseconds, its impact on profitability is immediate and substantial. As such, measurement tools must support sub-microsecond precision. Absolute and comparative measurements of latency are critical factors that determine how well algorithms perform in high frequency trading environments. Similarly, profitable arbitrage trading depends on identifying profitable trading opportunities that exist for mere milliseconds. Therefore, knowing exactly how much latency exists in the entire system is vital, but not as important as rapidly identifying latency’s source. However, latenc

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