Pop quiz, hotshot. What’s a nanosecond?

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March, 2011

“Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?” – Dennis Hopper talking to Keanu Reeves in the movie “Speed”

 That was a good movie.  Speed.  It’s all about speed now in the trading world.  We are constantly reading articles about the “insatiable” need for speed on Wall Street.  We read one yesterday in the FT titled “Tibco moves trading into nanoseconds“.  Apparently,

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