NYFIX Offers FIX Training in Boston 2/12/09, Los Angeles 2/24/09, and San Francisco 2/26/09

Imported from previous forum

[ original email was from Imani Moody - imani.moody@nyfix.com ]
NYFIX invites members of your organization to leverage the FIX expertise of our professional services team at our comprehensive one-day “Introduction to FIX” training courses in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Montreal, and Chicago.
UPCOMING LOCATIONS, DATES AND TIMES:

  • Boston – February 12th, Thursday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Los Angeles – February 24th, Tuesday, 7:30am � 3:30pm
  • San Francisco – February 26th, Thursday, 7:30am � 3:30pm
  • New York - March 12th, Thursday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Montreal - March 19th, Thursday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Chicago - April 9th, Tuesday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Sao Paolo - May 12th, Thursday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • New York – May 21st, Thursday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Toronto – June 3rd, Wednesday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Boston - June 18th, Thursday, 9:00am - 5:00pm

TRAINING OBJECTIVES:
This interactive seminar is designed to provide a detailed understanding of the FIX protocol and how to integrate FIX software into your trading environment. The agenda combines a full overview of the FIX protocol with several practical examples covering the operation and control of the FIX engine and FIX sessions, and the diagnosis of issues in FIX message logs.
Attendees receive copies of the slides, FIX field definitions list, FIX quick reference guide, FIXionary CD (FIX reference guide), and a certificate of completion.

TRAINING AGENDA:

  1. FIX General Overview
    What is FIX? Who created it? Why do we use it? Benefits of FIX
  2. FIX Versions and Asset Classes
    FIX Functionality Matrix, Growth of FIX, Importance of FIX Versions
  3. FIX in Detail
    Examine FIX message types, components, layers, and business flows
  4. FIX Engine
    What is a FIX engine? What does it do? How does it interact with the rest if the trading environment?
  5. FIX Session Layer
    Definition of �Session Layer�, as well as message types, operation and recovery in a FIX session
  6. FIX Routing
    Message routing tags in FIX and examples of sending FIX messages to different systems and counterparties
  7. Application Layer
    Definition of �Application Layer�, as well as messages, business flows, required and conditional fields, and customization of messages. FIX for Pre-trade and Post-trade Processing
  8. Connection On-boarding and Certification
    Rules of engagement, adding new connections, hosted vs. point-to point connectivity, certification process and best practices
  9. What�s new in FIX?
    FIX 5.0, FAST, FIXML, and FIXatdl

TO REGISTER
Visit www.nyfix.com/training and click on the �Register Now� link for the session of your choice.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Email FIX Sales at fixsales@nyfix.com or call Imani Moody at 646-525-3076