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The Life of a Tick

What happens between a price changing at an exchange and a trading machine's answer? We follow one tick from the order book, through the race between firms, into the five layers of the machine this course teaches you to build.

You will learn

Explain what a tick is and what an order book shows
Describe why trading machines race in microseconds and why firms co-locate
Name the five layers of a trading machine this course covers

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