NYFIX Offers FIX Training in San Francisco on 3/6/08

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[ original email was from Doug Sainato - douglas.sainato@nyfix.com ]
NYFIX is pleased to invite members of your organization to leverage the extensive FIX expertise of our Professional Services team at a comprehensive one-day training program offered in San Francisco. Please sign up now for our FIX Academy for the Introduction to FIX.

Location: Elephant & Castle located at Club Quarters, 424 Clay Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
Date/Time: Thursday, March 6th 2008 / 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.

::::::COURSE OVERVIEW::::::

The objectives of this course are to provide a high-level understanding of the FIX protocol and integrating FIX software into your trading environment. The agenda is focused toward trading and support staff that may be relatively new to FIX, although advanced topics are covered. The agenda combines a full overview of the FIX protocol with several practical examples and cases covering the operation and control of the FIX engine and FIX sessions as well as diagnosis of issues. We hand out copies of the slides, FIX field definitions, FIXionary CD (FIX reference guide), and 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 in Detail
    Examine FIX message types, components, layers, and business flows

  3. FIX Engine
    What is a FIX engine? What does it do? How does it interact with the rest of the trading environment?

  4. Session Layer
    Definition of “Session Layer”, as well as message types, administration, operation and error recovery for a FIX session

  5. Application Layer
    Definition of “Application Layer”, message types, business flows, required vs. conditional fields, and customization. FIX implementation of Asset Classes (Equities, Derivatives, FX, Fixed Income). FIX for Pre-trade and Post-trade

  6. Connection On-boarding and Certification
    Network connectivity options (advantages-disadvantages), Rules of Engagement, Connection on-boarding, Certification and best practices

  7. What’s new in FIX?
    FIX version 5.0, FAST Protocol, FIXML, Globalization of FIX

  8. Q&A

::::::MORE INFORMATION::::::

Pricing: $995 per person with 20% client discounts and 25% group discounts

For further information, please contact Douglas Sainato at douglas.sainato@nyfix.com or 646-525-3101.