Re: [Quickfix-developers] accounts and balances

[Grant B. <gbi...@co...>]

You are misunderstanding QuickFIX's role -- FIX is merely a
communication protocol, and QuickFIX is an engine for managing
communication over FIX.

QuickFIX will allow you to communicate with FIX-compliant
counterparties, but it doesn't automatically manage your accounts and
balances for you.  It will enable you to construct and send request
messages and receive the responses, but once you receive that info
your app is responsible for storing and processing it.

Your next step should be to find some documentation about your
counterparty's FIX connection.  That should tell you how they expect
to receive requests and how they will deliver the information back to
you.  Furthermore, it will tell you which message types and fields are
supported, and if there are any custom DataDictionary changes that you
need to make (for instance, it's not uncommon for an exchange to add
custom or non-standard fields to some messages).

Good luck!

-Grant


On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Doug and Marcia Green
<dou...@gm...> wrote:
> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>
> I have a FIX application acceptor working in C++ DLL.  My application
> onLogon method gets called.  Before I start sending orders, I'd like
> to know what accounts are accessible and what their balances are.  I
> can't figure out how to get this.  Do I need to initiate a request for
> these somehow?  Sorry for the newbie question, I've searched for hours
> and seem to be just not understanding how accounts and balances are
> stored.
>
> Thanks
> Doug
>
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