How Does Co-Location Benefit HFT Crypto Arbitrage Strategies?
Co-location involves placing the HFT firm's servers physically in the same data center as the exchange's matching engine. This drastically reduces network latency because the data only travels a very short physical distance.
This speed advantage allows the co-located arbitrage bot to be among the first to react to market data and execute trades, maximizing the chance of capturing fleeting arbitrage opportunities before others.