Lightspeed Gateway is a division of a FINRA Broker Dealer that offers one of the most dynamic black box development solutions to traders who depend on high performance direct-market access. From standard features like order entry and data retrieval, to the speed benefits of co-location and a character-delimited protocol, Lightspeed Gateway has redefined the technology behind algorithmic trading. Learn about Lightspeed Gateway features.

Lightspeed Gateway messages are simply framed – each one is delimited by a newline character and each field therein is delimited by a space character. Working with this format requires less code, which often translates into better performance. Learn more.

What’s one of the best ways to finish first? Take a shortcut. Lightspeed Gateway co-locates its servers in the same data-centers as NASDAQ so that data only needs to travel through a few feet of fiber optic cable. Find out more about Lightspeed Gateway’s co-location features.

The performance of a direct market access system is evaluated on four criteria: speed, reliability, consistency and functionality. Building a system that is both reliable and consistent without sacrificing speed or functionality is quite the technological endeavor, but we’ve figured out a way to cover it all. Read our FAQ to learn about how Lightspeed Gateway deals with present-day technology problems, and its plans for the future.