Account Balance

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Imported from previous forum

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Hi,

I’d like to know if the FIX protocol delivers account information from my broker, such as balance etc.

Let’s assume, that I receive market data from one company and send orders through FIX gateway.

Then who is responsible of giving me the account information ( balance ) ?

Thanks

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Hi,

I’d like to know if the FIX protocol delivers account information from
my broker, such as balance etc.

Let’s assume, that I receive market data from one company and send
orders through FIX gateway.

Then who is responsible of giving me the account information (
balance ) ?

Thanks

Hi,
FIX protocol responses deliver the most recent execution. FIX Tag 1 may provide the transaction account information, however, it will not be able to provide you with your full account information.

Your prime broker should be able to provide you with the account summary information. You may discuss the frequency of such updates with your broker.

Normally, account summary information is provided by the middle or back office processes. In most cases, FIX messages are used to report the executions. However, tag58 may be used to provide you with information regarding your latest position (say after the execution) on a specific security. This may require development.

Regards,
TK

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Hi,

I’d like to know if the FIX protocol delivers account information from
my broker, such as balance etc.

Let’s assume, that I receive market data from one company and send
orders through FIX gateway.

Then who is responsible of giving me the account information (
balance ) ?

Thanks

Hi, FIX protocol responses deliver the most recent execution. FIX Tag 1
may provide the transaction account information, however, it will not be
able to provide you with your full account information.

Your prime broker should be able to provide you with the account
summary information. You may discuss the frequency of such updates with
your broker.

Normally, account summary information is provided by the middle or back
office processes. In most cases, FIX messages are used to report the
executions. However, tag58 may be used to provide you with information
regarding your latest position (say after the execution) on a specific
security. This may require development.

Regards, TK

Thanks

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Account info or reconciliations are done through third parties called clearing agents (which work under NSCC, National Securities Clearing Copr). This is the way to find out what happenned to the orders you sent, i.e. how many trades you made (bought / sold) and how much you have to pay (to settle the trade).

Both buyers and sellers send their trades (with symbols, price, time, qty) to the clearing agent(s) which match them or tells them about discrepencies. Technically, you can send trades to agents via ftp (incremental intra-day or EOD) or some other direct connections. ACT also helps in account matching and reconciliations.

  1. Normally for broker-to-broker transactions, the account info is ‘re-conciled’ through clearing at the end of day.
  2. An institutional customer can use FIX allocations to tell its broker to book the trades in different accounts. Then clearing takes over.
  3. In case of primer-brokerage, your prime-broker takes care of everything (you just pay money :slight_smile: ).

HTH.
himanshu

Hi,

I’d like to know if the FIX protocol delivers account information from
my broker, such as balance etc.

Let’s assume, that I receive market data from one company and send
orders through FIX gateway.

Then who is responsible of giving me the account information (
balance ) ?

Thanks