correct, there is a peculiar nuance on financial trading topics where people conflate "computer executed trade" with "high frequency trading"
you may need to rapidly adjust the expected fill price at a high frequency on a multi leg strategy being run in 100 positions, but the actual sending orders to the exchange doesn't need to be high frequency, and it is an important distinction that you wouldn't be competing with others on the frequency at this stage, it doesn't matter if this occurs in 1 millisecond of 500 milliseconds, even a couple of seconds. Very different ballgame than the wishful femtosecond game.
its probably better that people don't understand that, but it is annoying that there are this many roadblocks to a nuanced conversation
either way your servers still have to have all the authentication code, and various algorithms running to monitor the tape.
you may need to rapidly adjust the expected fill price at a high frequency on a multi leg strategy being run in 100 positions, but the actual sending orders to the exchange doesn't need to be high frequency, and it is an important distinction that you wouldn't be competing with others on the frequency at this stage, it doesn't matter if this occurs in 1 millisecond of 500 milliseconds, even a couple of seconds. Very different ballgame than the wishful femtosecond game.
its probably better that people don't understand that, but it is annoying that there are this many roadblocks to a nuanced conversation
either way your servers still have to have all the authentication code, and various algorithms running to monitor the tape.