Jitter Tax Calculator

Every millisecond of signing variance costs you alpha. Select your signer, input your trading parameters, and see the dollar impact.

Latency Cost Calculator

Quantify how much signing latency costs your firm annually in missed alpha and jitter losses.

Asset Class

Volatility Term

Daily Volume (USD)

$100M~1,000,000 trades/day

$1M$100M$1B$2B

Current Infrastructure

Latency Comparison3095x slower

AWS KMS130.0ms

ZeroCopy42µs

3,095x faster

Estimated Annual Latency Cost

$2.5M

Estimated cost vs. $2.5M cost with AWS KMS

Physics of Variance

Latency Gap129.96ms

Volatility Mul.2.5x

Loss / Trade~$0.01

Daily Loss = (V ÷ T) × L × S × σ × R

VDaily Volume (USD)

TAvg Trade Size ($100)

LLatency (microseconds)

SSlippage Coeff. ($0.0000015/µs)

σVolatility Multiplier (1x-5x)

RVulnerability Rate (2% of trades)

✓AWS KMS RTT: 150ms (Signing + Network)

✓ZeroCopy RTT: 42µs (Co-located Enclave)

✓Trading Days: 252 (equities), 365 (crypto)

✓Logic Source: ZeroCopy jitter tax model

Sources: AWS Re:Post Benchmarks, Fireblocks Perf Docs, BIS Working Paper 955.

We use a high-fidelity slippage model: (Volume / TradeSize) * Latency * Volatility.