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FIX Protocol in Plain English: Order Flow, Drop Copy, and Stable Sessions

FIX Protocol in Plain English: Order Flow, Drop Copy, and Stable Sessions

Trex, Thomas V.

Paperback

Series: Trading System Architecture & Devops

Investing & FinancePersonal Finance

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ISBN13: 9798896652236
Publisher: Nobletrex Press
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

FIX Protocol in Plain English: Order Flow, Drop Copy, and Stable Sessions

In modern electronic markets, a working understanding of FIX is no longer optional for traders, quants, developers, and operations teams-it is part of the production line. FIX Protocol in Plain English demystifies this critical infrastructure, translating vendor jargon and dense specifications into the language of business flows, risk controls, and real-world outages. It is written for practitioners who must design, implement, or support FIX connectivity and want to truly understand what's on the wire.

The book walks through the full lifecycle of an order: from the trading ecosystem and basic order types, through NewOrderSingle, cancel/replace, and ExecutionReport streams, to real-time drop copy and resilient session management. Readers will learn FIX message structure, data types, and FIXT transport; how sessions establish, heartbeat, and recover; and how to engineer stable, low-latency connections with accurate sequencing and robust replay. You will also design drop copy feeds for risk and surveillance, build high-availability architectures, and operate, secure, and monitor FIX engines in production.

A working knowledge of basic markets, networking, and a scripting or programming language is helpful but not required. The text is deliberately implementation-oriented, with clear patterns, failure playbooks, and decision frameworks rather than vendor-specific recipes-giving you the conceptual tools to work confidently with any FIX engine or venue.

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