{"id":118367,"date":"2021-01-11T21:23:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/high-frequency-traders-push-closer-to-light-speed-with-cutting-edge-cables"},"modified":"2021-01-11T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:23:28","slug":"high-frequency-traders-push-closer-to-light-speed-with-cutting-edge-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/high-frequency-traders-push-closer-to-light-speed-with-cutting-edge-cables","title":{"rendered":"High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed With Cutting-Edge Cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-frequency-traders-push-closer-to-light-speed-with-cutting-edge-cables.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cable, called hollow-core fiber, is a next-generation version of the fiber-optic cable used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052702303863404577285260615058538?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">deliver broadband internet<\/a> to homes and businesses. Made of glass, such cables carry data encoded as beams of light. But instead of being solid, hollow-core fiber is empty inside, with dozens of parallel, air-filled channels narrower than a human hair.<\/p>\n<p>Because light travels nearly 50% faster through air than glass, it takes about one-third less time to send data through hollow-core fiber than through the same length of standard fiber.<\/p>\n<p>The difference is often just a minuscule fraction of a second. But in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/high-frequency-traders-feast-on-volatile-market-11585310401?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">high-frequency trading<\/a>, that can make the difference between profits and losses. HFT firms use sophisticated algorithms and ultrafast data networks to execute rapid-fire trades in stocks, options and futures. Many are secretive about their trading strategies and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cable, called hollow-core fiber, is a next-generation version of the fiber-optic cable used to deliver broadband internet to homes and businesses. Made of glass, such cables carry data encoded as beams of light. But instead of being solid, hollow-core fiber is empty inside, with dozens of parallel, air-filled channels narrower than a human hair. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,15,41,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-habitats","category-information-science","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}