FIX Protocol 101: What Every Finance Engineer Must Know

FIX (Financial Information eXchange) protocol was designed in 1992 and looks like it. Tag-value pairs delimited by the ASCII SOH character (0x01). Fields in a prescribed order that parsers nonetheless receive out of order. A specification document larger than most novels. And yet: FIX is the universal language of electronic trading. Every exchange, every prime broker, every ECN speaks it. You will encounter it. ...

August 7, 2012 · 5 min · MW
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