[time-nuts] Trading stocks faster than light

Bill Hawkins bill at iaxs.net
Wed Sep 25 01:55:45 EDT 2013


I'm glad you brought that up. Watched CNBC go on about it, and not for
the first time. Two things bother me. One is the error in time sync. Are
they using full NTP or just SNTP?

The other is that humans are involved because they are the ones that
receive the news. Human reaction times are in the hundreds of  milli-
seconds.

Seems like the release of Fed news must be by machines, not people.

OTOH, commentators are desperate for something to comment about.

Bill Hawkins


-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart Cobb
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 11:24 PM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Trading stocks faster than light

<www.nanex.net/aqck2/4436.html>

Financial markets in Chicago and New York reacted to news from
Washington
-- milliseconds faster than the news could have reached them.

Includes at the end some discussion of news organizations that "aren't
so
good about synchronizing their master clock ..."  "Historically, these
news
services have shown a time range of about 30 milliseconds ..."  Sounds
like
they need time-nuts on staff.

Cheers!
--Stu



More information about the time-nuts mailing list