Traders hosting in New York now reach Databento market data at 0.87ms average latency with zero packet loss.
July 2026 – TradingFXVPS today announced a direct cross connect between its New York infrastructure and Databento, the market data provider serving quantitative traders, proprietary trading firms, and systematic desks across equities, futures, and options.
The connection is live now for TradingFXVPS clients hosted at Equinix NY4. Benchmark testing recorded an average round trip latency of 0.87 milliseconds to Databento endpoints, with zero packet loss across all test runs.
Verified Latency Performance
TradingFXVPS benchmarked the connection from both operating systems it hosts, using the native ping utility on each platform.
Linux (10 packets, ICMP)
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Average | 0.164 ms |
| Minimum | 0.146 ms |
| Maximum | 0.188 ms |
| Spread | 0.042 ms |
| Packet loss | 0% |
Windows (4 packets)
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| PsPing average (TCP) | 0.87 ms |
| PsPing minimum | 0.57 ms |
| PsPing maximum | 1.07 ms |
| ICMP ping | Under 1 ms, all packets |
| Packet loss | 0% |
Both platforms targeted 209.127.154.8 at ny4.databento.com. No packets were dropped in any run.
The 0.5 millisecond spread between the fastest and slowest recorded packet is as significant as the average itself. Latency variance, not raw speed, is typically what degrades the performance of systematic strategies in live conditions versus backtest.
Why the Connection Matters
Databento delivers real time and historical market data through a single API integration, covering equities, futures, and options. Traders using the service depend on how quickly that data arrives at the machine running their strategy logic.
Before this cross connect, TradingFXVPS clients reached Databento over standard internet routing. Data requests left the facility, traversed multiple carrier networks, and returned. Every hop introduced both latency and variability.
A cross connect replaces that path with dedicated fiber inside the same building. Because TradingFXVPS servers and Databento infrastructure both sit within Equinix NY4 in Secaucus, New Jersey, the connection spans meters of fiber rather than miles of routed network. Traffic never touches the public internet, which eliminates ISP routing decisions, peering congestion, and interference from unrelated traffic on shared paths.
Practical Impact for Traders
The connection benefits three categories of workload.
- Live signal generation. Strategies that trigger on price movement, order book changes, or volume conditions act the moment data arrives. Reducing data delivery time moves the entire decision chain earlier.
- Research and backtesting. Historical dataset pulls complete faster over dedicated fiber than over congested public routes, shortening the cycle between hypothesis and result for research teams.
- Execution quality on data driven entries. When decision logic runs against stale data, the calculated price and the available price diverge. Lower data latency narrows that gap.
- TradingFXVPS notes one important distinction: the cross connect improves the speed at which market data reaches the client server. Order execution speed remains dependent on the client’s broker connection and that broker’s routing infrastructure. Data latency and execution latency are separate components of the trading stack, and this connection addresses the first.
Availability
The Databento cross connect is available now on TradingFXVPS NY4 plans. Clients currently hosted in other locations whose strategies depend on Databento feeds can migrate to NY4 through the TradingFXVPS support team.
Traders running high frequency or scalping strategies may want to review the HFT Forex VPS tier, which pairs fiber cross connect infrastructure with SolarFlare 10GbE networking and sub millisecond connectivity to major venues.
Contact the TradingFXVPS team to discuss configuration or migration.