Colocation
q2 week 1: health scoring live, colo nic split, first numbers
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2:15am friday.
Q2 week 1 is done. walked in from the kitchen, A. fell asleep at her desk again — laptop open, ambient music still running. grabbed a blanket from the couch and put it over her. then came back and pulled up the weekly numbers.
execution quality audit: q1 slippage cost me more than i thought
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2:30am wednesday. april 1st. no this is not a joke post.
been staring at execution data for the last three hours and i have a headache. Q1 closed basically flat — detailed numbers in the march wrap. but flat is flat, and when i dug into why flat, the answer wasn’t strategy failure. it was execution bleed.
q1 close: final numbers, colo benchmarks, and q2 setup
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friday night. Q1 officially in the books.
did the math earlier while A. was cooking. she noticed i went quiet and just left me to it. that’s one of the things i didn’t expect about being married — how well she reads when to give space. anyway.
signal decay and execution latency - my hidden edge killer
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2:15am on a monday.
been staring at fill data for the past six hours.
march has been rough. not catastrophically down, but underperforming where my models say i should be. january was decent (+2.1%). february was a loss (-1.3%). march was supposed to recover and it’s just… flat.
chicago colocation 18 months - ROI analysis and lessons
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18 months with chicago colo.
time for ROI analysis.
the setup recap # december 2023: deployed chicago colo
slippage analysis - chicago colo ROI validated 9 months in
9 months chicago colocation.
time for ROI analysis.
numbers validated.
recap setup # january 2024:
installed dedicated server chicago via colo provider.
chicago colocation - summer value analysis, cost vs benefit
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august slippage brutal.
made me appreciate chicago colocation. been worth every dollar.
the numbers # colocation cost:
$450/month datacenter
chicago colocation - 67ms to 12ms latency improvement, worth the cost
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moved execution server to chicago colo march 2024.
3 months data in.
latency dropped 67ms → 12ms average.
why chicago # CME exchange location: chicago