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Broker FIX session

In thıs section you can observe broker FIX sessions. These are FIX sessions that refer to all accounts of a particular broker, not to a specific account individually. Broker sessions specifically have no type. They are used to send data to back-office systems. FIX broker sessions always send trades and can also send swap and netting data but they do not send market data or orders. These sessions are adjusted to the format of the back-office of the particular broker.

To add a broker FIX session, click the Add fix session button, select the broker and the conversion type (back-office system type).

When creating the FIX session, it is necessary to fill fields below:

NameDescription
Brokerbroker identifier in the platform
Converter typeconversion type (back office system type)

Also filling the fields Field account, Field on behalf of CompID, Field on behalf of SubID is necessaty if you are creating the configuration on the OPICS side.

After creating the FIX session, in the edit mode the additional settings will be available:

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NameDescription
Send swapsetting of swap sending
Send nettingsetting of netting
Send trade date instead value dateallows to send the date of instead of the value date

It will also be possible to add Included and Excluded accounts which will allow you to include/exclude the next data for sending to FIX:

  • Account relation
  • Management type
  • Accounting type
  • Status of the account
  • Account group
  • Accounts

In addition to the information above, you will also see the following fields in the table:

NameDescription
IDsession number
Profilewhich profile the FIX session belongs to
Is activesession activity indicator
Statussession status
Settingssession settings
Descriptionsession description
TARGETCOMPIDliquidity provider FIX ID
Attention: Once a FIX session has been created, the password must be saved along with the settings, it is shown only once and cannot be recovered, if you lose it you will have to create a new one.

Principal order

This session type is intended for placing orders on accounts that have been received in the platform from an external system. The initial pool of available accounts is specified in the session settings.

To create this type of session, the following fields must be filled in:

NameDescription
Account matching styleIf set to Default, the account number is transmitted in the session settings, and the order is placed on the corresponding account in the platform. If set to Trader, the order is placed for a specific account member and only if the member is linked to a single account in the platform.
AccountsIn this type of session, it is necessary to specify the accounts on which orders will be placed. If accounts are not specified or an account is specified incorrectly, the order will not be placed.
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