FIX-related products and services

FIXForge .NET FIX Engine

Onix Solutions FPL
30 Borough High Street
London SE1 1XU


The FIXForge .NET FIX Engine FIX-enables any .NET application (e.g. in C#, Visual Basic.NET, Managed C++ or Delphi.NET) an in a simple, reliable and cost effective manner.

Main features:

  • High throughput (more than 120,000 msg/sec), low latency (less than 16 microseconds) performance for Direct Market Access or Algorithmic Trading applications
  • Ready to use exchange-specific trading and market data client samples as well as FIX dialect description files are available for many FIX destinations (Hotspot, Currenex, CME, EFX, etc) upon .


  • Pure .NET API (properties, events, delegates, etc)
  • Build-in SSL encryption
  • FAST 1.1 encoding and decoding (CME compatible)
  • Can support up to 700 FIX sessions simultaneously
  • Support for current and future FIX versions (FIX 4.0, FIX 4.1, FIX 4.2, FIX 4.3, FIX 4.4, FIX 5.0)
  • Supports all tags of each FIX version
  • Supports all message types of each FIX version (equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX etc)
  • Flexible support of user-defined tags and user-defined message types
  • Can support more than one FIX version at once
  • Can perform validation of required fields
  • Persistence (the ability to log data to a flat file and restore the state after fail-over)
  • Supports FIX dialects (custom interpretations of FIX)
  • Source-code Licence is available

The FIX Engine provides the following services:

  • manages a network connection
  • manages the session layer (for the delivery of application messages)
  • manages the application layer (defines business related data content)
  • creates (outgoing) messages
  • parses (incoming) messages
  • validates messages
  • persists messages
  • session recovery in accordance with the FIX state events


Supported platforms: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 3.0

The FIX Engine set includes the FIX Engine .NET library (assembly), documentation, and open-source samples (Exchange Emulator, Trading Client (Simple Order Entry), FIX Log Viewer, FIX benchmark tests, UDP-based FAST 1.1 Feed and FAST Client) for evaluation, education and testing.

To download a 30 day evaluation version, go to www.onixs.biz/downloads/

For more information on FIXForge .NET FIX Engine or any of our products please email or visit our web-site www.onixs.biz.

Architecture
.NET, Stand alone executable / library
Asset Class
Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Listed Derivatives, OTC Derivatives
Domain
Back office, Front Office, Middle Office, Order Routing, Proprietary Trading
FAST Version
1.1
FIX Version
4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.0
Functionality
Allocations and Settlement Instructions, E-mail, Indications of Interest, News, Orders and Execution Reports
Language
C#, Visual Basic
Licensing
Maintenance Only
Middleware
DCOM, IBM MQ Series, In-process, Microsoft MQM, ODBC, Sockets, TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO SmartSockets, Web Services
Platform
Windows NT/2k/XP
Project Type
Fixed Price
Service
Business Analysis / Requirements, Development, Outsourcing - offshore, Outsourcing - onshore, Quality Assurance
Services
Best Execution Tools, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Exchange Solutions, FIX Gateway, FIX Messaging and monitoring, FIX point-to-point connectivity, Managed Hosting, Trading Applications
Topic
FIX 4.1, FIX 4.2, FIX 4.3, FIX 4.4, FIXML 4.4, FIXML pre-4.4, Order routing, Post trade processing
Web site
http://www.onixs.biz/FIXEngines/dotnet.php
Contact
+44 20 7117 0111
Last modified: 1 May 2008 at 4:45 AM ET