HFT Latency Profiling overview

Performs microsecond-level latency analysis of the full order path in high-frequency trading systems — profiling network hop timings from co-location cage to exchange matching engine, measuring kernel-bypass and FPGA gating delays, analyzing tick-to-trade latency distributions across percentiles, identifying jitter sources in NIC timestamping and serialization, and benchmarking against competitive latency targets. Produces latency heat-maps, bottleneck reports, and hardware/software optimization recommendations. Excludes trading strategy logic and alpha signal research.