Low Latency Optimization: Understanding Huge Pages (Part 1)
Latency is often a crucial factor in algorithmic trading. At HRT, a lot of effort goes into minimizing the latency of our trading stack. Low latency optimizations can be arcane, but fortunately there are a lot of very good guides and documents to get started. One...
A Campus Career Fair Led This Software Developer to a New Life in NYC
As a California native and aspiring software developer, Jenna MacCarley always thought she’d work in Silicon Valley—but meeting with an HRT campus recruiter at a career fair convinced her a job in New York just might be the right move. “I was impressed with the...
Enabling Algo Research on Blockchain Data
Strategy development at HRT is a complex process, and in some cases involves exploring massive data sets to find interesting patterns and generate ideas.
An Introduction to SmallGrid
HRTers process real-time price and volume data for over a million symbols across global markets every day. If we want humans to have a chance of keeping up, we need that data efficiently represented in a tabular format!