After reading Liar’s Poker, I was in NYC bookstore and I couldn’t resist to buy this book.
I’m not an expert on the field, even I do not consider myself an amateur, just a surprised citizen that was around.
I knew what was HFT, the importance of latency, that the market volume was high for HFTs…
But concepts as dark pools, running-front,…. have been a great discovery for me. And anecdotes about real things that have happened to the different flash boys, is some of my prefer parts of the book.
From the book Quantitative Trading, by Ernie Change:
I trade through Goldman Sachs’s REDIPlus trading
platform, whose Sigma X execution engine routes orders to both its
internal crossing network as well as to external liquidity providers.
I have found that it often improves my execution price by more than
a few cents per share over execution on Interactive Brokers: more
than enough to offset its higher commissions.
http://joapen.com/blog/2017/09/20/quantitative-trading-ernie-chang/