{"id":33193,"date":"2018-07-15T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T11:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33193"},"modified":"2018-07-15T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T11:31:41","slug":"shortwave-trading-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/shortwave-trading-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Trading Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source:\u00a0SNIPER IN MAHWAH & FRIENDS<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard that years ago, there was a stable business selling microwave data radios to local governments for networking their offices. Then the traders discovered microwave and everything changed for the radio vendors. Their new customers weren\u2019t so much concerned about the cost\u2014they just wanted the lowest-possible latency in the radios and repeaters.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m picking up signs that vendors in other industry segments are now seeing a surge in their business with the recent interest in shortwave trading. For example,\u00a0TCI<\/a>\u00a0has had a good business making shortwave antennas for 50 years. Then they issued\u00a0a press release<\/a>\u00a0in April 2018 saying they\u2019re now working with \u201cnon-government customers to provide HF antenna communication systems that minimize timing-latency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bloomberg has\u00a0picked up the story of shortwave trading<\/a>, digging through public records to disclose ownership of a site I described in\u00a0a previous post<\/a>. It seems like this is a hot topic!<\/p>\n

In this post, I\u2019ll show some recent site changes, document a fourth CME\/Europe shortwave trading site I\u2019ve discovered, detail discoveries from my trip up the east coast, discuss regulatory questions, cover two patents on shortwave trading, some miscellaneous things, and finally explain the connection between a sax-playing sheep farmer and shortwave trading. This is a long post and these are varied topics, so please just skip to the next section if you\u2019re not engaged.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to continue reading the full article.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source:\u00a0SNIPER IN MAHWAH & FRIENDS) I\u2019ve heard that years ago, there was a stable business selling microwave data radios to local governments for networking their offices. Then the traders discovered microwave and everything changed for the radio vendors. Their new customers weren\u2019t so much concerned about the cost\u2014they just wanted the lowest-possible latency in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[34,7024,4655],"class_list":["post-33193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-shortwave","tag-shortwave-trading","tag-why-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8Dn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33217,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/shortwave-trading-part-iv-final-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":33193,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Trading Part IV (Final Post)","author":"Thomas","date":"July 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source:\u00a0SNIPER IN MAHWAH & FRIENDS) After my first few public posts about shortwave trading, I gradually realized that I\u2019d inadvertently created a worldwide network of deputy antenna sleuths. 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