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Building Low Latency Applications with C++

Building Low Latency Applications with C++

By : Sourav Ghosh
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Building Low Latency Applications with C++

Building Low Latency Applications with C++

4.2 (15)
By: Sourav Ghosh

Overview of this book

C++ is meticulously designed with efficiency, performance, and flexibility as its core objectives. However, real-time low latency applications demand a distinct set of requirements, particularly in terms of performance latencies. With this book, you’ll gain insights into the performance requirements for low latency applications and the C++ features critical to achieving the required performance latencies. You’ll also solidify your understanding of the C++ principles and techniques as you build a low latency system in C++ from scratch. You’ll understand the similarities between such applications, recognize the impact of performance latencies on business, and grasp the reasons behind the extensive efforts invested in minimizing latencies. Using a step-by-step approach, you’ll embark on a low latency app development journey by building an entire electronic trading system, encompassing a matching engine, market data handlers, order gateways, and trading algorithms, all in C++. Additionally, you’ll get to grips with measuring and optimizing the performance of your trading system. By the end of this book, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of how to design and build low latency applications in C++ from the ground up, while effectively minimizing performance latencies.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1:Introducing C++ Concepts and Exploring Important Low-Latency Applications
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Part 2:Building a Live Trading Exchange in C++
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Part 3:Building Real-Time C++ Algorithmic Trading Systems
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Part 4:Analyzing and Improving Performance

Reacting to executions and managing positions, PnLs, and risk

We need to build a few basic building blocks that will build and support our trading strategies. We discussed the need for these components in Chapter, Designing Our Trading Ecosystem, in the Designing a framework for low-latency C++ trading algorithms section. We have already implemented a major component – the limit order book – but in this section, we will build the remaining components we need, namely the following:

  • A FeatureEngine, which will be used to compute simple and complex features/signals that drive the trading strategy decisions
  • A PositionKeeper, which will receive executions and compute important measures such as position, PnLs, traded volumes, and more
  • An OrderManager, which will be used by the strategies to send orders, manage them, and update these orders when there are updates
  • A RiskManager to compute and check the market risk that a trading strategy is attempting to take...

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