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The headline about El Salvador’s president joking that France could fix its crisis in a week underscores how quickly public perception can shift when a single statement goes viral. For quantitative traders, the lesson is similar: a tiny latency advantage—measured in microseconds rather than milliseconds—can be the difference between profit and loss in highly competitive markets. This article unpacks why those fractions of a second matter, how they are measured, and what concrete steps you can take to audit and improve your own execution pipeline....