Some funds put their computer servers very close to stock exchanges for a minuscule reduction in the time it takes for data to be transmitted down the wires.Quants have been remarkably successful over the past decade, but in August last year something went badly wrong: within the space of a week many of their models ceased to work.
McGrath was unique, of course, a genius whose further technical attributes included an uncanny ability for a tall man to get in so close to the stumps in delivery that even minuscule movement was accentuated.
AS far as anyone knows, no vinegar has ever been mass-produced in Vinegar Hill, a minuscule neighborhood covering only eight blocks close to the Manhattan Bridge anchorage and abutting the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the borough's northwestern shore.
At that point, The Exegesis will bring you extraordinarily close to his unique mind, with its mixture of doubt, wild invention, minuscule detail, grandiose theory and wry humour.
This minuscule writing is apparent only when viewers nose in close to the surface; otherwise, it looks as if the artist has drawn tiny strands of barbed wire.
Individuals still own outright close to half the total stock outstanding, even though they account for a minuscule portion of the trading.
The uncertainty principle explains why this doesn't happen: if an electron got too close to the nucleus, then its position in space would be precisely known and, therefore, the error in measuring its position would be minuscule.
Second, quantum-effect devices are sensitive to minuscule control currents.
With the latest deal, however, the Marlins signaled a probable return to minuscule payrolls.
This shrinks the player down to minuscule size.
