Ideally under 100 mikes tick to trade (that's in addition to my own wire to wire) but I know that would be hard to achieve unless I build something myself. In the early stages i can live with 5-10ms tick to trade and can decide which way to go once I have everything else working.
I think in the...
I can't recall what are the actual components for either ETF, are they the same? If an equal weight ETF has more exposure to lower cap stocks, it makes sense that it would have higher implied volatility assuming the same correlation.