{"id":53389,"date":"2016-07-08T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53389"},"modified":"2016-07-08T08:35:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T12:35:57","slug":"legendary-hedge-fund-wants-to-use-atomic-clocks-to-beat-high-speed-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2016\/legendary-hedge-fund-wants-to-use-atomic-clocks-to-beat-high-speed-traders.html","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Hedge Fund Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Patent application no. 14\/451,356 has one goal: to outrun the speed demons of Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-page document was quietly published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in February. Replete with schematic drawings, the filing describes a novel way for \u201cexecuting synchronized trades in multiple exchanges.\u201d The invention consists of not only sophisticated algorithms and a host of computer servers, but atomic clocks &#8212; precisely calibrated to vibrations of irradiated cesium atoms &#8212; to sync orders to within a few billionths of a second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-07-07\/jim-simons-has-a-killer-flash-boy-app-and-you-can-t-have-it\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Patent application no. 14\/451,356 has one goal: to outrun the speed demons of Wall Street. The 16-page document was quietly published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in February. Replete with schematic drawings, the filing describes a novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53390,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53389\/revisions\/53390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}