Where is the IB order server located?

[Daal]

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Ok. Are you surprised that HFT systems are faster than IB's systems considering IB is a retail broker and HFT's have dedicated systems designed with low latency as primary requirement.

In other words even if IB's systems had the same network latency as the HFT systems I don't think it would matter, the HFT systems would still be faster.

Maybe someone with more knowledge like WinstonTJ can jump in here.

Its ok for IB to be slower than most HFTs but not the other brokers(With servers in NYC)

 

[HurricaneUS]

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Someone correct me if I'm wrong but this is a huge deal for stops in important points. Say you are long a stock and its going down to $20 which was previous support. You have a stop at $19.96, when the price breaks $20 usually there is an avalanche of market orders from stops and HFTs gaming those orders. When you have high latency(I mean 'high' in relative terms) you will be guy getting filled at $19.90 or worse more often than not

With low latency at last you have a CHANCE of not being gamed so badly by the HFTs, with high latency you are almost guaranteed to get gamed

sounds like you need to go back to the drawing board with your strategy because you have not accounted for slippage.

You're looking for technological solutions to solve the issue of slippage

I account for slippage in my strategy hence I'm not interested in pestering IB with information that they will deem confidential.

 

[Random.Capital]

If a difference of "a few milliseconds" is going to matter to you, you shouldn't be using an intermediary at all.

 

[Rationalize]

Quote from GTS:

Ok. Are you surprised that HFT systems are faster than IB's systems considering IB is a retail broker and HFT's have dedicated systems designed with low latency as primary requirement.

In other words even if IB's systems had the same network latency as the HFT systems I don't think it would matter, the HFT systems would still be faster.

Maybe someone with more knowledge like WinstonTJ can jump in here.

"IB is a retail broker"

Not so much.

I think you'll find that IB shares some fairly fancy infrastructure with the very non-retail end of things.

 

[emg]

Quote from Daal:

, right now all the HFTs and brokers located in NYC are getting executed before IB orders

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