What FIX is and why it matters
FIX (Financial Information eXchange) is the standard protocol banks, funds and exchanges have used to communicate for decades: normalised messages for orders, executions and market data, with no graphical interfaces in between. Connecting over FIX means trading with the same grammar institutional infrastructure uses — and measuring execution in milliseconds, not in screen refreshes.
What our implementation offers
- Direct order-book access: real market depth for your systems, not just top of book.
- Co-location in LD4 and NY4: the two data centres where global FX liquidity lives; hosting your system there minimises the physical distance to execution.
- Verified sub-20 ms latency: round-trip, measured under real conditions from the co-location centres.
- Execution on the same engine and the same institutional liquidity our Execution Policy describes.
Who it is for (and who it is not)
The FIX API is built for mid-to-high-frequency algorithmic trading, statistical arbitrage, market making and institutional flows needing full control of the order lifecycle. If your trading is discretionary or your EAs run fine on MT5, the API will not make you more profitable: it adds integration complexity that only pays off when latency and depth are part of the strategy itself.
Requirements and access
- An active, verified ECN PRO account.
- A request through your account manager or the support team.
- Joint technical scoping: FIX credentials, test environment and per-session risk limits.
- Go-live after validating the integration in staging.
Access is granted per operation, not en masse: we prefer a few well-built integrations to many connections without risk controls.