NYFIX Offers FIX Training in New York and Seattle, July 16th and July 30th respectively

Imported from previous forum

[ original email was from Keith David - keith.david@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 course.

DETAILS
The training takes place in NEW YORK on JULY 16, 2009 from 8:45 AM to 4:30 PM and in SEATTLE on July 30, 2009 from 7:45 AM to 3:30 PM.

The New York training will take place at the NYFIX offices at 100 Wall Street. Seattle location will be determined based on attendance. Breakfast and lunch will be served.

TO REGISTER
Copy and paste one of the links into your web browser to register:

New York: http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?5S,M3,630e0ba1-0458-4370-abc1-38fe25b30bd1

Seattle: http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?5S,M3,2e1f85a6-33a6-4a99-bd9c-4b5233fec42b

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, and a FIXionary CD (FIX reference guide).

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 is new in FIX?
    FIX 5.0, FAST, FIXML, and FIXatdl

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Email FIX Sales at fixsales@nyfix.com or call Mark Hearon at 646-525-3225.