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[ original email was from Orlando Gordon - junk@gordonvideo.com ]
I’m still not sure what I need to know to be FIX qualified. I’ve read the implemention guide, Errata documents, lots of pdf’s on this site, I went to quickfix, I’ve searched all over the web and found some sample messaged…but what do I with this information? I don’t feel I really know anymore than I already did. I feel like I have a car and no road. I get turning it on…I get turning the wheel and filling it with gas, but what do I actually do with a car and no road to drive it on? Learning FIX is critical to my career’s success right now and I would really apreaciate some help here. Thanks!
All this information seems to be great refernce data for someone already using FIX. Surely I’m not expected to remember all the possible messages? Atleast with TCP/IP I know there are certain rules about IP address and I understand how to create a valid IP address, but what are the rules of FIX? What is it’s syntax? As far as I can see, if I wanted to develop a FIX compliant application that could send an order request to an exchange, I’d have to communicate this request in FIX format, so I’d look up the message for order request and have my application send it to the exchange. I would’nt know the syntax for such a message though. There has to be some kind of formating structure…where do I learn this if not on this website? How did you guys learn FIX? Can anyone really “learn” FIX? Is’nt it essentially an archive of standardized messages?
[ original email was from Orlando Gordon - junk@gordonvideo.com ]
> I’m still not sure what I need to know to be FIX qualified. I’ve read
the implemention guide, Errata documents, lots of pdf’s on this site,
OK…I’m finally making some progress. Aparently what I needed was to read the FIX syntax documents, which were not that east to find. I guess there are so many documents available, the right ones got lost in the suffle. I still think this site should have a FIX 101 page. The What is FIX link should have maybe sample of an actual FIX message and go through the basics, like message tag structure and string values. What I needed to know that I know now is that all FIX messages have certain basic elements and depending on what you are trying to do, there are tons of standard messages to include various transaction types and OMS operations. You folks should be ashamed of yourselves for not knowing those things! I had to run 100 queries just to find out a paragraph of basic information. 
I’m just kidding…so don’t cut of my head folks! Thank you.
Hey FIXprotocol dudes…looking for somebody to write a FIX 101 document?? What’s better than a newbie who still has a fresh perspective on being new to FIX? When we are experts we take things for granted, and make too mant assumptions in out help documents. Glad to help out if I could!
Umm…where did you find these documents?
I’m still not sure what I need to know to be FIX qualified. I’ve read
the implemention guide, Errata documents, lots of pdf’s on this site,OK…I’m finally making some progress. Aparently what I needed was to
read the FIX syntax documents, which were not that east to find. I guess
there are so many documents available, the right ones got lost in the
suffle. I still think this site should have a FIX 101 page. The What is
FIX link should have maybe sample of an actual FIX message and go
through the basics, like message tag structure and string values. What I
needed to know that I know now is that all FIX messages have certain
basic elements and depending on what you are trying to do, there are
tons of standard messages to include various transaction types and OMS
operations. You folks should be ashamed of yourselves for not knowing
those things! I had to run 100 queries just to find out a paragraph of
basic information.
Thank you.Hey FIXprotocol dudes…looking for somebody to write a FIX 101
document?? What’s better than a newbie who still has a fresh
perspective on being new to FIX? When we are experts we take things for
granted, and make too mant assumptions in out help documents. Glad to
help out if I could!