{"id":3964,"date":"2026-04-23T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hftarbitrageplatform.com\/?page_id=3964"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:26:37","slug":"performance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hftarbitrageplatform.com\/pt\/performance\/","title":{"rendered":"How HFT Arbitrage Platform Performs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background: #f1f7ff; border-left: 4px solid #0066cc; padding: 20px 24px; margin: 0 0 32px 0; border-radius: 4px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; color: #003a75; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.5px;\">TL;DR \u2014 How it performs<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 1.7;\">Performance of the HFT Arbitrage Platform is determined by four variables: <strong>broker execution quality, VPS latency to the broker, reference-feed quality, and strategy selection<\/strong>. With a correctly chosen arbitrage-friendly broker, a sub-1 ms VPS in LD4\/NY4\/TY3\/FR5, and a premium feed, the platform executes signals in 0.3\u20132 ms and typically achieves fill rates of 85\u201398% on one-leg latency, 90\u201399% on hedge arbitrage, and 70\u201390% on 2-legs latency. We do <strong>not<\/strong> publish fixed percentage returns \u2014 anyone who does is misleading you. Real results depend on your specific broker\/VPS\/feed\/capital combination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When prospective users ask us &#8220;how does the platform perform?&#8221; they usually expect a percentage number \u2014 &#8220;15% per month,&#8221; &#8220;doubles your account in 90 days.&#8221; We will not give you that number, because it does not exist. Arbitrage performance is not a property of the software alone; it is a property of the full stack: the software, the broker, the VPS, the data feed, the market conditions, and the capital deployed. Change any one of those variables and the result changes.<\/p>\n<p>This page explains what performance looks like in practice: the metrics we actually measure, the factors that move those metrics up or down, realistic ranges by strategy type, and how you can evaluate performance on your own setup before committing capital. If you want a one-sentence summary: <strong>the platform performs well when the execution chain around it is set up correctly, and poorly when it is not<\/strong>. The rest of this page explains how to tell the difference.<br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>Live verified performance \u2014 third-party reference accounts<\/h2>\n<p>We maintain public reference accounts on FxBlue \u2014 an independent third-party trade-verification service \u2014 so prospective customers can see real execution data from the platform running on a correctly configured setup. FxBlue reads the account&#8217;s trade log directly from the broker and publishes it verbatim; we cannot edit or filter what it shows. Below are the current live reference accounts for our two most-used strategies.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; padding: 24px; border-radius: 6px; margin: 24px 0; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0;\">One-leg latency arbitrage \u2014 reference account<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\">Live statistics from our 1-leg latency reference account, updated in real time by FxBlue. Click the banner to open the full account page with trade-by-trade history, drawdown chart, and performance graph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 20px 0;\"><a title=\"Open full FxBlue statistics for the 1-leg latency reference account\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/users\/hftarbitrage-1leg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/banner.aspx?id=hftarbitrage-1leg&amp;t=14\" alt=\"FxBlue live performance banner \u2014 HFT Arbitrage Platform 1-leg latency reference account\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>2-legs latency arbitrage \u2014 reference accounts<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\">We run two parallel reference accounts for 2-legs latency so users can compare execution across different broker setups. Both are publicly verified by FxBlue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-weight: 600;\">Account 1<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 20px 0;\"><a title=\"Open full FxBlue statistics for the 2-legs latency reference account 1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/users\/hftarbitrage-2-legs1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/banner.aspx?id=hftarbitrage-2-legs1&amp;t=14\" alt=\"FxBlue live performance banner \u2014 HFT Arbitrage Platform 2-legs latency reference account 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-weight: 600;\">Account 2<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 0 0;\"><a title=\"Open full FxBlue statistics for the 2-legs latency reference account 2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/users\/hftarbitrage-2-legs2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/banner.aspx?id=hftarbitrage-2-legs2&amp;t=14\" alt=\"FxBlue live performance banner \u2014 HFT Arbitrage Platform 2-legs latency reference account 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>How to read the FxBlue data<\/h3>\n<p>Each banner shows current equity curve, total P&amp;L, and win rate at a glance. Clicking through opens the full FxBlue account page, which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete trade-by-trade log with entry, exit, lot size, and P&amp;L per trade<\/li>\n<li>Monthly and daily performance breakdown<\/li>\n<li>Drawdown history and maximum drawdown percentage<\/li>\n<li>Win rate, average win, average loss, profit factor<\/li>\n<li>Trade frequency, average holding time, and instruments traded<\/li>\n<li>Account growth chart since the first published trade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"background: #fff8e6; border-left: 4px solid #e6a700; padding: 14px 18px; border-radius: 4px; margin: 20px 0; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\"><strong>Important context:<\/strong> these are <em>reference accounts<\/em> running on a specific broker, VPS location, feed provider, and capital base chosen by us. Your own results will differ based on your broker, VPS, feed, strategy mix, and capital. The reference accounts demonstrate that the platform executes correctly on a real-life broker \u2014 they are not a promise that your account will replicate these numbers. See the &#8220;Four factors that determine your results&#8221; section below for what changes the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge arbitrage and triangular arbitrage reference accounts are provided to paid-license customers on request, because those strategies typically require broker-specific configuration that we prefer to discuss 1-on-1 rather than expose on a public verification page.<!-- ================================================== --><!-- 3. WHAT \"PERFORMANCE\" MEANS IN ARBITRAGE            --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>What does performance mean in arbitrage trading<\/h2>\n<p>In directional trading, performance usually means return on capital. In arbitrage, that metric is downstream of several more fundamental numbers. Because arbitrage trades are short-duration, small-per-trade, and high-frequency, the real performance question is not &#8220;how much did the account grow this month&#8221; but &#8220;how reliably did the software detect, send, and fill signals against the actual market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The metrics that matter are these:<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow-x: auto; margin: 20px 0;\">\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background: #0066cc; color: #ffffff;\">\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Metric<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">What it measures<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Healthy range<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Signal detection latency<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Time from feed tick arriving to arbitrage opportunity identified<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">&lt; 0.5 ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Order send latency<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Time from platform decision to order leaving VPS<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">&lt; 1 ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Round-trip execution<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Order send \u2192 broker ack \u2192 fill confirmation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">5\u201330 ms (depends on broker)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Fill rate<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">% of sent orders that fill at the expected price<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">85\u201399% (strategy-dependent)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Slippage<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Avg price difference between signal and fill<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.3 pips (quality broker)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Requote rate<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">% of orders rejected \/ requoted by broker<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">&lt; 2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Profit factor<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Gross profit \u00f7 gross loss across closed trades<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">&gt; 1.5 (tunable via filters)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Broker survival time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Days\/weeks before the broker flags or restricts the account<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Weeks to indefinite (with anti-detection filters)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>If signal detection, order send, and round-trip execution are all inside healthy ranges, the strategy will work. If any one of them is outside its range, return on capital collapses regardless of how good the strategy logic is. That is why we focus on these numbers rather than on a &#8220;monthly return&#8221; figure.<!-- ================================================== --><!-- 4. FOUR FACTORS THAT DETERMINE PERFORMANCE           --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>The four factors that determine your results<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Broker execution quality<\/h3>\n<p>The single biggest factor. A broker with STP\/ECN execution, low markup, deep liquidity, and a policy that permits arbitrage will give you fill rates above 90% and near-zero slippage. A market-maker broker with a dealing desk, internal matching, and hostile execution settings will give you fill rates below 50%, frequent requotes, and &#8220;plugins&#8221; that specifically add artificial delay to arbitrage orders. Paid-license customers receive our current list of arbitrage-permitted brokers with execution notes; this list is not public because it changes as broker policies change.<\/p>\n<h3>2. VPS location and network latency<\/h3>\n<p>Arbitrage requires the VPS to be physically collocated in the same data center as the broker&#8217;s trading server. The four datacenters that matter for forex\/CFD are <strong>LD4 (Equinix London \u2014 most ECN brokers), NY4 (Equinix New York \u2014 US equities and many brokers), TY3 (Equinix Tokyo \u2014 Asian sessions), and FR5 (Equinix Frankfurt \u2014 European liquidity)<\/strong>. Running on a consumer VPS or on a general-purpose cloud region adds 30\u2013200 ms round-trip latency, which kills latency arbitrage and degrades all other strategies.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Reference feed quality<\/h3>\n<p>Latency arbitrage, by definition, compares a fast reference feed against a slower broker feed. If the reference feed is itself slow or derived, there is no edge to exploit. The platform supports Rithmic, CQG, Integral, LMAX, and cTrader Raw as reference sources. These are institutional-grade feeds and cost $50\u2013$300\/month; consumer aggregator feeds will not produce working latency signals. Hedge arbitrage is less feed-sensitive but still benefits from clean data on both legs.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Strategy selection for the account type<\/h3>\n<p>Not every strategy works on every account. One-leg latency requires a slow broker with permissive execution, a narrow category. Hedge arbitrage works across two brokers and is the most flexible strategy, but requires capital on both sides. 2-legs latency variant 3 is the most prop-firm-compatible variant. Triangular arbitrage requires tight pricing on all three legs of the triangle, which most retail brokers do not offer. Matching the strategy to the account is why Custom Configuration and the All Arbitrage Bundle exist.<!-- ================================================== --><!-- 5. REALISTIC PERFORMANCE RANGES BY STRATEGY          --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>Realistic performance ranges by strategy<\/h2>\n<p>The table below shows observed ranges across our customer base on correctly configured setups. These are not guarantees, and they assume an arbitrage-friendly broker + LD4\/NY4 VPS + quality feed. Poor setup significantly reduces every number in this table.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow-x: auto; margin: 20px 0;\">\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background: #0066cc; color: #ffffff;\">\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Strategy<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Fill rate<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Avg slippage<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Trade frequency<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Best for<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>One-leg latency<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">85\u201398%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.2 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">20\u2013200 \/ day<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Retail accounts with arbitrage-permitted broker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>2-legs latency v1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">70\u201388%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.3 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">10\u201380 \/ day<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Dual-broker retail setup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>2-legs latency v2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">75\u201390%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.3 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">15\u2013100 \/ day<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Reduced detection risk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>2-legs latency v3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">78\u201392%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.3 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">15\u2013120 \/ day<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Prop firm accounts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Hedge arbitrage<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">90\u201399%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.1 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">5\u201340 \/ day per pair<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Most flexible, prop firm compatible<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Triangular arbitrage<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">60\u201385%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.5 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">3\u201325 \/ day<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Tight-spread ECN accounts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>3-legs latency<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">65\u201382%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.4 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">5\u201340 \/ day<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Advanced multi-broker setups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #666; font-style: italic; margin-top: 8px;\">Ranges are observed across our active customer base on a correctly configured infrastructure. Individual results vary. These numbers describe execution behavior, not profit, and do not constitute a performance guarantee.<!-- ================================================== --><!-- 6. WHY WE DON'T PUBLISH FIXED RETURNS                --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>Why we don&#8217;t publish &#8220;% per month&#8221; returns<\/h2>\n<p>If you have compared arbitrage software vendors, you have probably seen screenshots of MyFxBook accounts showing &#8220;300% return in 6 months&#8221; or videos claiming &#8220;the system makes $X per day.&#8221; We will not provide those claims, and here is why:<\/p>\n<p>First, <strong>return on capital is not a property of the software<\/strong>. A $10,000 account on broker A with VPS in LD4 will produce completely different numbers than the same $10,000 on broker B with a VPS in a consumer datacenter. Publishing one result as &#8220;the platform&#8217;s performance&#8221; is dishonest.<\/p>\n<p>Second, <strong>the arbitrage-friendly broker list changes<\/strong>. A broker that worked in Q1 may change execution policy in Q2 and suddenly produce 40% worse fills. Any historical screenshot becomes unrepresentative within months.<\/p>\n<p>Third, <strong>publishing high returns invites broker retaliation and attracts the wrong customers<\/strong>. Brokers monitor vendors that brag about their software; publishing specific numbers helps them identify and restrict accounts running the platform. It also attracts users who expect those numbers and blame the software when their own setup produces different results.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, <strong>vendors who publish fixed-return claims are almost always lying<\/strong>. The claims are typically either cherry-picked single weeks, demo-account backtests labeled as live, or outright fabricated. If a vendor guarantees X% per month, that is a signal to leave, not to buy.<\/p>\n<p>What we do publish is the execution-quality ranges in the table above, plus three live FxBlue-verified reference accounts (shown near the top of this page) covering one-leg and 2-legs latency on real broker setups. FxBlue is an independent third-party trade-verification service \u2014 the data comes directly from the broker, and we cannot edit or filter it. Hedge and triangular reference accounts are available to paid customers on request. That is the honest version of &#8220;performance data&#8221;: verified third-party execution on our own accounts, not cherry-picked screenshots or promises about what your account will do.<!-- ================================================== --><!-- 7. HOW TO EVALUATE PERFORMANCE ON YOUR OWN SETUP     --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>How to evaluate performance before committing capital<\/h2>\n<p>The correct way to answer &#8220;will this work for me&#8221; is to test it on your intended setup. The platform supports this at four levels of commitment, from zero cost to full deployment.<\/p>\n<h3>Level 1 \u2014 Backtest engine (free with any paid edition)<\/h3>\n<p>The built-in 1-ms backtest engine replays historical tick data through your chosen strategy and broker-latency profile. You get a synthetic run showing fill rates, slippage distribution, and signal counts over whatever historical window you select. This tells you whether the logic works in principle.<\/p>\n<h3>Level 2 \u2014 Shareware demo ($19)<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/en\/product\/hft-arbitrage-platform-free\/\">Free edition<\/a> runs the real engine on your real VPS against your real broker, restricted to EURUSD and 0.01-lot trades. This tells you whether your specific broker, VPS, and feed combination produces healthy execution metrics. Cost is $19, and the data is real.<\/p>\n<h3>Level 3 \u2014 Small live account<\/h3>\n<p>Once the shareware run shows acceptable fill rates and slippage, deploy the paid edition on a small live account ($500\u2013$2,000) for two to four weeks before scaling. This is the only stage where you learn how the broker responds to arbitrage activity over time \u2014 which is information no backtest can give you.<\/p>\n<h3>Level 4 \u2014 Scaled live deployment<\/h3>\n<p>If the small live account holds up for 2\u20134 weeks with stable metrics and no broker restrictions, scale capital. This is also when prop firm accounts become worth testing, since prop firm evaluations typically last 30 days, and the small live phase validates that your setup can pass.<!-- ================================================== --><!-- 8. BROKER EXECUTION DEEP DIVE                        --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>How does broker type changes performance<\/h2>\n<div style=\"overflow-x: auto; margin: 20px 0;\">\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background: #0066cc; color: #ffffff;\">\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Broker type<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Expected fill rate<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Expected slippage<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Arbitrage tolerance<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">True ECN (bank-liquidity, no dealing desk)<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">95\u201399%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.1 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Permitted by policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">STP (straight-through processing)<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">85\u201395%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0\u20130.3 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Usually permitted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Hybrid STP \/ market maker<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">60\u201380%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0.3\u20131 pip<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Tolerated until detected<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Pure market maker with dealing desk<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">30\u201360%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">1\u20135 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Prohibited \/ restricted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Market maker with anti-arbitrage plugin<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">&lt; 20%<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">3\u201310 pips<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Actively blocked<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The same platform, the same strategy, and the same VPS will look like a great product on row 1 and a broken product on row 5. This is why the broker-selection list we give paid customers is the single most valuable thing they receive \u2014 more valuable than the software itself for first-time users.<!-- ================================================== --><!-- 9. VPS \/ COLOCATION IMPACT                           --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>How VPS location changes performance<\/h2>\n<div style=\"overflow-x: auto; margin: 20px 0;\">\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background: #0066cc; color: #ffffff;\">\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">VPS location<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Typical round-trip to LD4 broker<\/th>\n<th style=\"padding: 12px 14px; text-align: left; border: 1px solid #0066cc;\">Effect on latency arbitrage<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\"><strong>Equinix LD4 colocation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">0.1\u20130.5 ms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Optimal \u2014 strategy viable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">London datacenter (non-colo)<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">2\u20138 ms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Marginal \u2014 hedge OK, latency degraded<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Continental EU general VPS<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">15\u201330 ms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Latency arbitrage non-viable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Consumer cloud (AWS, GCP general)<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">25\u201380 ms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">All strategies degraded<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Home internet \/ US consumer VPS<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">80\u2013200+ ms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 10px 14px; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">Not usable for arbitrage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>If the broker is located in LD4, the VPS must be in LD4. If the broker is in NY4, the VPS must be in NY4. A sub-1 ms VPS-to-broker link is not a nice-to-have for latency arbitrage \u2014 it is the difference between the strategy working and not working.<!-- ================================================== --><!-- 10. PROP FIRM PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS             --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>Performance on prop firm accounts<\/h2>\n<p>Prop firm accounts change the performance picture in two ways. First, one-leg latency arbitrage is prohibited by essentially every major prop firm \u2014 FTMO, FundedNext, The5ers, MyForexFunds \u2014 so that strategy is off the table. Second, hedge arbitrage and 2-legs latency variant 3 are typically permitted and work within the daily-drawdown and max-drawdown limits that prop firms impose.<\/p>\n<p>On a correctly configured prop firm setup using hedge + 2-legs v3, fill rates are similar to retail \u2014 88\u201397% on hedge, 78\u201390% on 2-legs v3. The constraint is not execution but risk management: prop firm rules usually cap daily loss at 4\u20135% and total drawdown at 8\u201310%, so position sizing needs to respect those limits. The platform&#8217;s risk dashboard enforces this automatically when you configure the per-day and per-trade drawdown ceilings at setup.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete prop firm compatibility matrix and strategy recommendations by firm, see <a href=\"\/en\/prop-firm-arbitrage-hft-software-funded-accounts\/\">Prop Firm Arbitrage<\/a>.<!-- ================================================== --><!-- 11. FACTORS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL                      --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>Factors that affect performance and are not in our control<\/h2>\n<p>We want to be explicit about what we do not control, so expectations stay aligned with reality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Broker policy changes.<\/strong> A broker can change execution model, add arbitrage-detection plugins, widen spreads, or ban arbitrage at any time. We track the arbitrage-friendly list and update it, but we cannot guarantee any specific broker will remain arbitrage-permitted indefinitely.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Market volatility regime.<\/strong> Arbitrage opportunities are more frequent in volatile markets and less frequent in compressed-range conditions. A calm market produces fewer signals; this is not a software problem.<\/li>\n<li><strong>News events.<\/strong> During high-impact news (NFP, FOMC, ECB) most brokers widen spreads 5\u201320\u00d7 and disable or restrict arbitrage-like activity. Fills during news are unreliable by design, and the platform&#8217;s session filter defaults to pausing during scheduled high-impact events.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your capital and sizing decisions.<\/strong> We do not determine lot size, leverage, or risk per trade \u2014 you do. Those decisions have as much impact on results as the software.<\/li>\n<li><strong>VPS provider reliability.<\/strong> Network issues, VPS reboots, or ISP problems at the datacenter are outside our control. Use redundant VPS setups for serious capital.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- 12. FAQ (details\/summary)                            --><br \/>\n<!-- ================================================== --><\/p>\n<h2>Performance FAQ<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 0;\">\n<details style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 16px 20px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 6px;\" open=\"\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a; padding: 4px 0;\">What monthly return should I expect?<\/summary>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 12px; border-top: 1px solid #f0f0f0; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\">\n<p>We do not publish expected monthly returns, because they depend entirely on your broker, VPS, feed, strategy, capital, and market conditions. Any vendor giving you a specific percentage \u2014 &#8220;20% per month,&#8221; &#8220;doubles your account&#8221; \u2014 is either lying or cherry-picking one favourable week. What we do publish is execution-quality ranges: fill rate, slippage, and trade frequency by strategy. Those numbers, on a correctly configured setup, are the only honest starting point. Return on capital is downstream of execution quality plus position sizing, both of which are specific to your account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 16px 20px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 6px;\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a; padding: 4px 0;\">Can I see live trading statements?<\/summary>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 12px; border-top: 1px solid #f0f0f0; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\">\n<p>Yes. Three live reference accounts are publicly verified by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FxBlue<\/a> \u2014 an independent third-party trade-tracking service that reads trade logs directly from the broker. The banners near the top of this page link to the full accounts: one for 1-leg latency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/users\/hftarbitrage-1leg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hftarbitrage-1leg<\/a>) and two for 2-legs latency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/users\/hftarbitrage-2-legs1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hftarbitrage-2-legs1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxblue.com\/users\/hftarbitrage-2-legs2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hftarbitrage-2-legs2<\/a>). Each account page shows complete trade-by-trade history, drawdown, win rate, and equity curve. Hedge and triangular arbitrage reference accounts are provided to paid-license customers on request, since those strategies usually require broker-specific configuration better discussed 1-on-1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 16px 20px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 6px;\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a; padding: 4px 0;\">Why are fill rates in the shareware lower than in the full version?<\/summary>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 12px; border-top: 1px solid #f0f0f0; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\">\n<p>The <a href=\"\/en\/product\/hft-arbitrage-platform-free\/\">Free shareware<\/a> has an artificial 10 ms feed delay, is restricted to EURUSD and 0.01 lots, and runs without the anti-detection filters. Those restrictions reduce fill rates by 15\u201325% versus the paid editions. The purpose of the shareware is to verify that your broker + VPS + feed combination produces healthy execution on a known-restricted configuration \u2014 if metrics are acceptable in shareware, they will be meaningfully better in the paid edition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 16px 20px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 6px;\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a; padding: 4px 0;\">My fill rate is low \u2014 is the software broken?<\/summary>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 12px; border-top: 1px solid #f0f0f0; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\">\n<p>Almost always the problem is in the execution chain, not in the software. In order of frequency: (1) broker is a market maker with dealing-desk execution, (2) VPS is not colocated with the broker, (3) reference feed is a consumer aggregator rather than Rithmic\/CQG\/Integral\/LMAX\/cTrader Raw, (4) broker has added an anti-arbitrage plugin without notifying you, (5) strategy choice is wrong for the broker type. Paid-license support will walk through each of these with you. In four years of support tickets, we have never found a low-fill-rate problem that was caused by the software itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 16px 20px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 6px;\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a; padding: 4px 0;\">How long before a broker restricts an arbitrage account?<\/summary>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 12px; border-top: 1px solid #f0f0f0; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\">\n<p>It depends on the broker and on your account behaviour. On brokers whose terms explicitly permit arbitrage, accounts run indefinitely. On brokers that tolerate arbitrage until it becomes visible, the platform&#8217;s anti-detection filters \u2014 randomized sizing, holding-time enforcement, session diversification \u2014 extend survival from days to months. On brokers that prohibit arbitrage, no filter is sufficient; you will be flagged and restricted, typically within 2\u20138 weeks. The broker-selection list we provide to paid customers focuses only on brokers in the first category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 16px 20px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 6px;\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a; padding: 4px 0;\">What is the minimum capital to see meaningful performance?<\/summary>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 12px; border-top: 1px solid #f0f0f0; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\">\n<p>For evaluation: $500\u2013$2,000 on a small live account is enough to validate fill rates and broker behaviour over 2\u20134 weeks. For operational trading: $5,000\u2013$25,000 is the common retail range where position sizing can respect broker minimums while still producing economically meaningful results relative to the broker\/VPS\/feed monthly cost. Below $500, per-trade minimums and spreads dominate the result and the numbers stop reflecting the strategy. Above $100,000 on a single retail broker, detection risk scales and multi-broker setups become preferable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details style=\"margin-bottom: 12px; padding: 16px 20px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0; border-radius: 6px;\">\n<summary style=\"cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a; padding: 4px 0;\">Do you offer a performance guarantee or refund if I lose money?<\/summary>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 12px; border-top: 1px solid #f0f0f0; color: #333; line-height: 1.7;\">\n<p>No \u2014 and any software vendor who offers one is either lying or running a Ponzi structure. Arbitrage trading software is a tool; trading outcomes depend on broker, market, capital, and operator decisions we do not control. We offer the $19 shareware so you can validate the software on your own broker and VPS before committing to the full license fee. We also provide a curated arbitrage-friendly broker list and set up support to paid customers, which is the closest thing to a risk-reduction mechanism that can honestly exist in this category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>The performance of an HFT Arbitrage Platform is a function of the execution chain, not a fixed property of the software. Four variables \u2014 broker execution quality, VPS colocation, reference feed quality, and strategy selection \u2014 determine whether the platform produces healthy fill rates and low slippage or degraded fill rates and high slippage. On a correctly configured setup, observed metrics fall within the ranges in the table above. On a poorly configured setup, they do not, and no amount of software tuning compensates for the wrong broker or the wrong VPS. The right way to evaluate performance is to test on your own setup at increasing levels of capital: backtest, shareware, small live, scaled live. The wrong way is to rely on a vendor&#8217;s percentage claim.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; padding: 24px; border-radius: 6px; margin: 32px 0; text-align: center; border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 16px 0; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a;\"><strong>Want to test performance on your own broker and VPS?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 12px 24px; background: #0066cc; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: 600; margin: 4px;\" href=\"\/en\/product\/hft-arbitrage-platform-free\/\">Start with $19 Shareware<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 12px 24px; background: #ffffff; color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: 600; margin: 4px; border: 2px solid #0066cc;\" href=\"\/en\/editions\/\">Compare Editions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- ================================================== --><br \/>\n<!-- 14. 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