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I used to have 2x19" but what sucks about it is that basically the frames are in the center of your view and to me that's pretty annoying. So, now I have a 30" in the center and the 2 19" on the sides and am very happy with it. Most of the people here never actually sat in front of a 30" and...

I have one and it's great. It's an almost perfect monitor ... almost because I'd like to see more inputs than just the standard DVI. However, the price really came down on this one and for $1300 it's pretty much the best you can get. Be aware though, that you need a graphics card with Dual DVI Link

I think for GS BP you're looking at 10mil min. I heard good things about their technology side but never experienced it first hand though. I've had lots of problems with ML in the past so that wouldn't be my top choice. For futures, ABN is pretty good but I have no idea how good they are on the...

So, that is automated order entry and not manual, right?

Right, if you weigh that in for latencies you're not going to get <1ms anywhere. That's true, some brokers have excellent connectivity to the exchanges because they're on private circuits close by or actually colo at the exchanges themselves (Equinix in Chicago or IXEurope in Frankfurt for...

that's not necessarily true: INET Pinging xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with 32 bytes of data: Reply from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=62 Reply from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=62 Reply from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=62 Reply from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: bytes=32 time<1ms...

Colo is always going to be the fastest solution and that's what he seems to be after, it's most certainly not the most user friendly solution though :) Also, I'm assuming here that his order entry is all done automatically and not by hand because then the situation is a bit different. Maybe...

1ms roundtrip times from where? From your client to the exchange and back? If so, forget it. You can get < 1ms roundtrips if you colo at an exchange data center but then you need to route your order straight without passing any risk checks, etc. If you're really looking for that kind of...

That's correct. I actually don't know what my avg. record set is and doesn't make much sense to determine this that way because it largely depends on the type of record set. Book or OPRA feed generally requires more space than lvl1 equities feed. If you'd ask about compression rate, I think I'm...

No, I'm not a big fan of somewhat clunky solutions but there are a couple commercial FIX engines available that support this scenario, e.g. http://www.basixsystems.com/Excel/excel.htm

I am. Self written FIX engine hooked to Fimat, ML, ABN, ARCA as well as self written market data storage database based on FAST specs. All application level activity is stored in MSSQL database.

I would also keep it that way. You'll always be faster accessing from and writing to a binary file than a relational database. Unless you need SQL queries for some reason I'd just stick with binary files and optionally index them. As far as the Lvl2 question goes... do you only get lvl1...

ARCA offers FIX access for 3rd party integration, so that's what you'll want to use. Protocol specifications can be found at http://www.fixprotocol.org There are tons of commercial and open source FIX engines available, just google for it