Cycle 31 (v2 cycle #12), day 1:
I haven't been able to do much more than where I was last week.
I have polished further my optimizations ideas and my reaction time has never been faster than it currently is but my competition is improving as well.
Despite all the effort to improve my system reaction time, my trading volume did melt. It did peak at around $370K sometime in February and now it is barely above $100K...
My numbers tell me that I am still 7-9ms too slow.
I will probably need a cross-connection to fill that gap. I cannot be 7-9ms faster just by improving my software.
But cross-connecting with CF is expensive. About $4K/month. so going for it is going to be a huge leap of faith.
Will the gain be big enough to pay off this huge expense?
I still have other ideas for optimizations... Also, a special niche idea that I had last fall that I didn't go up to completion... I am unsure of what I should be doing next... If I knew that going for the cross-connection would immediately fill my 7-9ms gap, I would probably go with it right away but I don't know.
The safest thing to do is to push as much as I can the software improvements to see how far I can go and also if I end up taking the financial risk to try out the cross-connection, by having the best possible optimized system will increase the probability of success...
Probably that the best answer is somewhere in the middle.
I haven't been able to do much more than where I was last week.
I have polished further my optimizations ideas and my reaction time has never been faster than it currently is but my competition is improving as well.
Despite all the effort to improve my system reaction time, my trading volume did melt. It did peak at around $370K sometime in February and now it is barely above $100K...
My numbers tell me that I am still 7-9ms too slow.
I will probably need a cross-connection to fill that gap. I cannot be 7-9ms faster just by improving my software.
But cross-connecting with CF is expensive. About $4K/month. so going for it is going to be a huge leap of faith.
Will the gain be big enough to pay off this huge expense?
I still have other ideas for optimizations... Also, a special niche idea that I had last fall that I didn't go up to completion... I am unsure of what I should be doing next... If I knew that going for the cross-connection would immediately fill my 7-9ms gap, I would probably go with it right away but I don't know.
The safest thing to do is to push as much as I can the software improvements to see how far I can go and also if I end up taking the financial risk to try out the cross-connection, by having the best possible optimized system will increase the probability of success...
Probably that the best answer is somewhere in the middle.
