fix-engine

FIX Protocol

Installation

npm install fix-engine

FIX Protocol

The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol is a series of messaging specifications for the electronic communication of trade-related messages. It has been developed through the collaboration of banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, industry utilities and associations, institutional investors, and information technology providers from around the world. These market participants share a vision of a common, global language for the automated trading of financial instruments. The FIX Protocol is a way to standardize the message flow between parties and is a key component in the straight-through processing of trades.

FIX Engine

A FIX engine is a program that provides FIX protocol messaging capabilities. It is a software that is used to send and receive messages in FIX protocol format

Port

This is the port number that the FIX engine will listen on for incoming connections. The default port number for FIX is 9876. For this parser it is 14001. (Vendor specific)