Simple FIX Protocol implementation for Python
Project description
Introduction
FIX (Financial Information eXchange) Protocol is a widely-used, text-based protocol for interaction between parties in financial trading. Banks, brokers, clearing firms, exchanges, and other general market participants use FIX protocol for all phases of electronic trading.
Typically, a FIX implementation exists as a FIX Engine: a standalone service that acts as a gateway for other applications (matching engines, trading algos, etc) and implements the FIX protocol. The most popular Open Source FIX engine is probably one of the versions of QuickFIX.
This package provides a simple implementation of the FIX application-layer protocol. It does no socket handling, and does not implement FIX recovery or any message persistence. It supports the creation, encoding, and decoding of FIX messages.
Licence
The module is licensed under the MIT license. While this is not legal advice, in short this means you’re free to do whatever you like with this code, with the exception of claiming you wrote it.
Usage
Contributing
Comments, suggestions, bug reports, bug fixes – all contributions to this project are welcomed. See the project’s GitHub page for access to the latest source code, and please open an issue for comments, suggestions, and bugs.
