On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Ben Stover <bxs...@ya...> wrote:
> QuickFIX Documentation:
> http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
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> Sorry for this question:
> Assume I create FIX messages with a client based on quickfix.
> I send them to another company which owns a different FIX product (but
> which supports
> FIX 4.4 as well).
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> Does quickfix cooperate in such a scenario with other products or are there
> incompatibilities?
Yes and No. FIX itself is a protocol that adheres to the FPL FIX protocol
specification(s) see http://www.fixprotocol.org. The problem with FIX is
that many apps use custom fields and sometimes even require variations of
the offical spec to work seemlessly together. Most companies will provide
you with their offical FIX specification and you might have to tweak your
data dictionary accordinly to accept or reject certain flags required by
your counter party. I've mostly noticed isseus when dealing with assests
outside fo the equities space ie. FIX 4.4 trading FX, Fixed Income etc..
This is all still pretty trivial. We're currently using QuickFix and have no
problem connection to all the major US Exchanges: NYSE, ISE, CBOE, NASD
etc.. Also we have many counter parties using a slew of fix engines
commerical and home grown not even based on the Quickfix API that are able
to trade with us fine.
I hope this clears up some of your confusion.
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