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title: "Corvil for Market Makers | Low-Latency Analytics | Pico"
description: "The best visibility, analytics, and reporting when speed really matters: deterministic performance in ultra-low latency trading environments for market makers and quant funds."
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# Corvil for Market Makers
The best visibility, analytics, and reporting when speed really matters: microsecond machine-time visibility for market makers and quant funds operating in ultra-low latency environments.

- Nanosecond precision visibility across the entire order lifecycle
- Optimize quote latency response and order gateway performance
- Pre-production and live environment testing and assurance
- MiFID II compliance with forensic audit trail records

## How does Corvil help market makers?

Corvil provides microsecond machine-time visibility and real-time analysis of both order transaction and market data processes capable of handling the most demanding market making environments. The latency of every order sent and every tick received can be measured and analyzed through every infrastructure hop. All messages are captured, analyzed, recorded, and can be streamed to external BI and data warehousing systems for forensics and reporting.

## Corvil analytics for market making

### Manage Quoting

Detect gaps in market data, optimize quote latency response, reduce mean time to resolve, and track order lifecycle precisely.

### Manage Venues

Analyze exchange latency, balance flows across gateways, monitor connectivity health, and measure order-to-tick for every venue.

### Trading Analytics

On-prem, self-managed Corvil Analytics with 600+ decoders, Intelligence Hub, and modular capture-to-intelligence components.

## Who uses Corvil for market making?

### Quantitative trading

- Optimize algorithm performance with nanosecond precision latency measurement
- Benchmark software updates and assure quality before production deployment

### Trading operations

- Proactive oversight of execution quality across various venues
- Reduce exposure to price slippage with real-time monitoring

### Infrastructure teams

- Validate performance of gateways and hold service providers accountable
- Accelerated troubleshooting and resolution of service quality problems

### Compliance

- MiFID II compliant forensic audit-trail records of all transactions
- Trusted data to demonstrate regulatory compliance and lower tail-risk

## Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about Corvil for market makers.

### How does Corvil help market makers optimize latency?

Corvil measures and analyzes the latency of every order sent and every tick received through every infrastructure hop with nanosecond precision. This enables market makers to optimize quote latency response, reduce order gateway latency, and benchmark software updates before production deployment.

### Can Corvil be used for pre-production testing?

Yes. Corvil can be used both for production monitoring and lab testing. It is critical for market makers to develop highly optimized algorithms for pricing and quoting: Corvil measures, tests, and assures the quality of this software in advance of production deployment.

### How does Corvil help with MiFID II compliance for market makers?

Corvil collects precision machine-time data records of all transactions and maintains forensic audit-trail records of all messages involved in a transaction as required by MiFID II and other regulations.

### What market data analytics does Corvil provide?

Corvil detects gaps in market data, analyzes exchange latency, monitors connectivity health, measures throttling on order flow, and provides microburst analysis, all critical for market makers who must be as fast as the fastest traders on the venue.

## Get ultra-low latency analytics

Talk to a Corvil specialist about how packet-level analytics can optimize your market making operations.