TT FIX Adapter Integration


vCapFutures is a leader in Financial Information exchange FIX protocol solutions and has the expertise to meet your institution’s connectivity needs in the futures and foreign exchange marketplace through the TT (Trading Technologies) FIX Adapter gateways.


By utilizing our TT FIX Adapter Integration specialists, your institution can use its existing order-entry system and built-in applications to route orders to the primary futures markets and OTC spot and forward foreign exchange inter-bank markets via TT’s gateways and FIX protocol. Whether you’re writing a black box application for high-speed trade routing or tying in an external trading front-end, the TT FIX Adapter has the feature-set and performance capabilities to give your institution the extra edge it needs to be competitive in the marketplace.

Our FIX Protocol and TT FIX Adapter integration specialists and TT’s high-speed and ultra-reliable gateways, your institution or proprietary trading group will be able to provide innovative solutions to maintain/reduce price bandwidth, create and handle various order types, automate trading with your own proprietary strategies, integrate your platform with other trading systems, display, manipulate and utilize market data, manipulate and distribute back-office data.


Benefits

  • Support for FIX protocol 4.2
  • Runs seamlessly on Windows 2000/NT/XP and Unix
  • Use TT’s ultra-reliable, high-speed gateways to route orders to the primary futures markets
  • Focus your efforts on trading rather than maintenance of exchange connections
  • Leverage your existing electronic trading infrastructure
  • Access all exchange-supported functionality, including spread and strategy trading
  • Support market data through FIX protocol.
  • Order routing and trade reporting
  • Built for high speed trading systems
  • Display, manipulate and utilize market data.
  • Configurable Risk Management that carries positions from day to day

Futures & FX Connectivity

By connecting to the TT FIX Adapter gateway through FIX protocol, your institution or proprietary trading group will have access to the following futures and FX connectivity:

Chicago Mercantile Exchange - CME Chicago Board of Trade - CBOT Chicago Board Options Exchange - CBOE Eurex

Eurex US ICE Futures Exchange Euronext Euronext-Liffe

BrokerTec Montreal Exchange Sydney Futures Exchange NYMEX

Deutsche Borse Group - Xetra HotSpot FX

Flexibility

Institutions, proprietary trading groups, banks and other organizations can use the TT FIX Adapter market data connection to request security definitions and market data, including last trade, high, low, settlement, open, close and market depth for both bid and ask. You also can configure the TT FIX Adapter as a back office fill feed to ignore order information and receive fill data from the exchange. The FIX Adapter supports TT’s risk management for trader and product setups, including position and credit limit risk configurations on all orders placed through the TT FIX Adapter. The TT FIX Adapter maintains a running position count for all contracts and applies the prior day’s positions to the current day.

Speed

TT has earned a reputation as the market leader when it comes to speed. The TT FIX Adapter provides the same high-speed performance as all TT products including X_Trader. Tests indicate that the TT FIX Adapter can easily handle several hundred orders per second without any performance degradation. TT’s robust FIX Adapter can process exchange price feeds in real time without sacrificing speed or performance.

Support

TT has a dedicated team to support all TT FIX Adapter customers. vCapFutures and TT’s Development Technical Support (DTS) team will consult with you throughout your development cycle. Additionally, TT’s FIX development group is available to work closely with you to most effectively bridge TT’s FIX Adapter with your trading application.