Fortex: FIX API insights

Fortex, the leading provider of multi-asset electronic trading solutions, provides enhanced accessibility to its trading platform XForce, including PC Terminals GUI, WebTrader, and APIs (Websocket API, Web API, RESTFul API and FIX API 4.4).

In this article, let’s talk more about Fortex FIX API.

1. What is FIX API?

FIX API service is a liquidity provision service based on FIX (Financial Information Exchange). FIX API is widely used in the electronic trading business, and is mainly to help market participants, including banks, brokers, liquidity providers, institutional traders, etc, to connect and exchange trade information, including market data/quotes and trade requests.

2. What is FIX?

FIX is an information and data protocol used to distribute price and trade information among financial institutions.

FIX has become the de-facto messaging standard for pre-trade, trade, and post-trade communication. As a functional process that can be described in a computer language and a uniform exchange format on each business function interface to facilitate the connection of individual functional modules. FIX has become one of the general standards of global financial markets, even widely used by regulators.

3. What is API?

API, or Application Programming Interface, enables companies to open up their applications’ data and functionality to external third-party developers, business partners, and internal departments within their companies.

4. Benefit from Fortex FIX API?

Let’s see how you can leverage Fortex FIX API.

Build your dedicated trade station: Institutional clients can use FIX API to develop your dedicated trade station to execute complex trade strategies with any account opened by any LP (liquidity provider) of other platforms.

Execute complex trading strategies: Institutional clients can use the FIX API to receive quotes and liquidity from banks, exchanges and LPs and to execute complex trading strategies.

Enhance decision making process: FIX API users may connect to multiple FIX providers and gain enriched market insight from the said information for better decision making.

5. Summary

Fortex FIX API is widely acknowledged in both the buy-side as well as the sell-side world. Fortex’s global institutional clientele all benefit from its accessibility, usability, stability and scalability as well as its advanced trading features.

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About Fortex Technologies

Founded in 1997, Fortex Technologies has been at the forefront of revolutionizing trading experiences with its robust, neutral, multi-asset trading platform. Our platform’s stellar features, including the XForce solution, ECN, MT4/5 bridges, infrastructure hosting, and more, are trusted globally by regional banks, hedge funds, asset managers, broker-dealers, and professional traders. It’s time to upgrade your liquidity access, refine your execution workflows, and support sophisticated trading strategies with Fortex.