When Milliseconds Make Millions: Why Wall Street Programmers Earn the Big Bucks

(ADT - David Ramel) David Ramel follows up his "Highest Paid Programmers" article with a look inside the world of high-frequency trading, where coders earn top dollars and even nanoseconds count.

A recent article I wrote about the highest paid programmersprovided a peek into the world of big-money, automated trading on Wall Street. In high-frequency trading (HFT), programmers eke out every last incremental tick in performance to build algorithms that battle other algorithms for computational supremacy and millions in profits -- and earn a lot in the process.

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When Milliseconds Make Millions: Why Wall Street Programmers Earn the Big Bucks

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