jump-trading-fpga-hft
Installation
SKILL.md
Jump Trading Style Guide
Overview
Jump Trading is a proprietary trading firm known for pushing the boundaries of trading technology. They pioneered FPGA-based trading, invested in microwave networks for faster-than-fiber connectivity, and operate at the absolute frontier of latency optimization.
Core Philosophy
"The speed of light is the only limit we accept."
"Software is too slow. Put it in hardware."
"Network latency is just physics. Compute latency is engineering failure."
Jump believes that when software is too slow, you put the logic in hardware. FPGAs can process market data and generate orders in hundreds of nanoseconds—faster than a CPU can even wake up.
Design Principles
- Hardware > Software: When latency matters, use FPGAs.