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Best Brokerage for Automated Trading (with Colocation)

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Hi all, I am looking for a good brokerage to colocate a server and do automated trading. As it might take me some time to get a stable setup running, I'd prefer a broker with low fixed costs. Most brokers I have found seem to charge at least 1k/month between colocation fees, data fees, and minimums. Does anybody have good lower cost alternatives?

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If you are not a HFT trader, who can't afford 1-2ms of additional network latency, it might be simpler and cheaper to use a standard hosting company or cloud service (e.g. Amazon's EC2) to get a server, then just connect to your broker over the internet.

 

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So, colocation is important because transferring data feeds over the internet is expensive (bandwidth wise) and slow. It isn't so much for the trading execution time, but more for the ability to get a good feed.

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Hi all, I am looking for a good brokerage to colocate a server and do automated trading. As it might take me some time to get a stable setup running, I'd prefer a broker with low fixed costs. Most brokers I have found seem to charge at least 1k/month between colocation fees, data fees, and minimums. Does anybody have good lower cost alternatives?

 

Try Weltrade, but first test their demo.

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