Online Trading

These latency optimized servers are designed specifically for electronic trading applications. These servers are located in our New York data center to provide the fastest possible speed to New York based brokerages. High performance enterprise grade hardware enables your trading applications to react to information and execute trades instantaneously. This edge improves success on time sensitive trades especially in volatile markets. No home based trader can compete with the execution speed of our fully optimized platform and network, regardless of the cost of their setup or speed of the broadband connection.

What’s Included

Dedicated Hardware Resources
Hardware resources are not shared with other servers. Full performance capacity is always available the moment it is needed.

Premium Network Connection
Our multiple tier1 network provides blazing fast connectivity. No network connection you can buy yourself comes close. What it means is the lowest possible latency between your trading applications, brokers, and news sources. When miliseconds count extreme network performance is critical!

Secure and Reliable Data Center
Our data center is fully secured with 24/7 on site security, biometric access, video surveillance, on-site power generation and UPS backup. In additional all servers are locked within cabinets which in turn are within locked cages.

Security and Internal Firewall
Every server is pre-configured to be secure and has Windows Firewall activated to prevent unauthorized inbound connections.

Secure Remote Desktop Access
You access your server from anywhere using the “Remote Desktop Connection” program included with Windows. It is also available free for Mac and Linux.

Multiple Monitor Support
Trading servers can span multiple monitors.

Sound, File, and Print Support
Transfer files, sound, and print jobs from the server and to your local PC seamlessly.

PC Independant Performance
Trading performance is unaffected by the speed of your local PC or internet connection. Applications running on the server communicate directly with brokerage platforms and news sources. The further you are located from New York, the more you'll benefit from this service. Our clients are located all over the world and use connections as slow as 56k modems to manage their servers.

Every Trading Server provides better performance than what can obtained at home or at the office. Choose a faster server if you run multiple trading applications simultaneously.

Basic
$70/mo. / $0 setup
1 CPU w/ 1GB RAM
40GB System Disk
Windows 2003 Server
1000Mb Internet connection

Standard
$149/mo. / $0 setup
2 CPU w/ 2GB RAM
40GB Premium Storage
Windows 2003 Server
1000Mb Internet connection

Extreme
$225/mo. / $0 setup
4 CPU /w 4GB RAM
40GB Premium Storage
Windows 2003 Server
1000Mb Internet connection

Technical Specifications

Intel Xeon Multicore CPU
All trading servers use true server class Intel CPU with 4 - 6 core each.

1000Mb (1Gb) Network
All trading servers have a true 1Gb Internet connection. This is 500 - 1000 times faster than a typical broadband connection.

RAID 10 SAN Storage
Trading servers require storage only for the operating system and several trading applications. However disk access speed can still be important, as is reliability. RAID 10 storage provides blazing fast read/write speeds and protection against disk failure.