Brokers/Dealers

Latency Intelligence gives Brokers/Dealers optimized trading performance with the latest in latency monitoring and measurement.

In today’s fast-paced trading environments, every millisecond counts. As both market data and transaction volumes grow, the load increase on trading infrastructure directly impacts latency and your ability to attract high frequency trading clients. Market players with the least amount of latency on their systems have a decided advantage over competitors. For this reason, market data flow and trade execution Latency Intelligence™ have become essential to seizing available market opportunities, increasing revenue, retaining customers, and gaining competitive advantage.

Low latency is considered a competitive differentiator when buy side firms evaluate how fast their Broker/Dealer is serving their needs for time-sensitive trading strategies. The Correlix Latency Intelligence Suite utilizes advanced algorithms to optimize trading opportunities by providing real-time insight into transaction response times and potential latency bottlenecks. This enables Broker/Dealers to create the low latency environment they need to attract more business and gain a competitive advantage.

By using innovative message correlation technology, Correlix Latency Intelligence solutions can trace market data and trading transactions across complex and diverse landscapes to report a multi-step flow latency by destination, customer, or trade path for transactions and source, subscriber, or data flow for market data. Providing out-of-the-box, heterogeneous, preconfigured protocols and semi-auto learning capabilities, Correlix is able to cover a diverse set of technologies and applications, including proprietary homegrown systems and protocols.

Correlix Latency Intelligence solutions also offer capabilities such as root cause analysis of failed transactions and trend analysis with early alerts on problems before they escalate and affect business performance. By anticipating and minimizing latency bottlenecks in real-time and taking corrective actions quickly, Broker/Dealers can improve operational efficiencies, monitor SLA compliance, and support continuous latency management as the infrastructure evolves.

Our Technology
Transaction steps have inbound and outbound messages with message attributes that are common or specific to the message type. Correlix uses this path data together with its unique message correlation technology to trace transactions across distributed networks in real-time. Correlix taps into networks through span or mirror ports, and traces messages via software probes that passively listen to traffic moving across networks without adding any additional latency to performance. Multiple probes are used when customers want to monitor all applications used in trade execution and market data flows as traffic traverses these complex infrastructures.

By using patented technology, Correlix identifies unique attributes within each message. For this reason, even if the message is transformed while traversing from one protocol to another, it can be traced and the latency can be measured for each application.