Communications on electronic trading platforms are based on a list of well-defined protocols.
Although FIX protocol has grown significant market share, the exchange specific protocols (also called "Native" interfaces) have found a strong backing with people using low latency trading.
List of Electronic Exchanges along with the protocols they currently expose as their E-Trading interface.
Exchange | Native Order Flow | FIX Order Flow | Market Data |
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B3 (stock exchange) (aka BM&FBovespa) | FIX | FIX4.4 | UMDF (FIX/FAST) |
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores | FIX | 4.4 - version 2.4 | INTRA (UDP) / SIVA (TCP) |
BIVA | OUCH | FIX 5.0 | ITCH |
Boston Options Exchange | SAIL | 4.2 | HSVF |
Cboe | BOE | 4.2 | PITCH |
Chicago Mercantile Exchange | iLink | FIX | Simple Binary Encoding |
Montreal Exchange | SAIL | 4.2 | HSVF |
Nasdaq | OUCH 5.0 Client [ permanent dead link ] | - | ITCH5.0 |
NYSE | Pillar | 4.2 [ permanent dead link ] | |
TSX | FIX Client | TSX-FIX | QUANTUMFEED |
Aequitas Neo | FIX | FIX | NITCH |
ICE | FIX | FIX | iMpact |
Exchange | Native Order Flow | FIX Order Flow | Market Data |
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Cboe Europe | BOE | 4.2 | PITCH |
Eurex | T7 ETI (Derivatives Markets Reference) | 4.4 | EOBI / FIX/FAST |
Euronext | SBE | 5.0 | SBE |
Borsa Italiana IDEM Derivatives | SAIL | 4.2 | HSVF |
Liffe (ICE EU) | FIX | FIX | iMpact |
London Stock Exchange | Native | 5.0sp2 | GTP |
Moscow Exchange (MICEX) | MTESRL-TSMR | 4.4 | FIX/FAST |
Moscow Exchange (RTS) | Plaza2 | 4.4 | FIX/FAST |
Oslo Børs (Derivatives) | SBE | 5.0 | SBE |
Oslo Børs (Equities) | SBE | 5.0 | SBE |
London Stock Exchange UK Derivatives | SAIL (Native) | 4.2 | HSVF |
Turquoise | Native | GTP | |
Warsaw Stock Exchange | UTP | 4.4 | XDP |
Xetra | T7 ETI (Cash Markets Reference) | 4.4 | EOBI / FIX/FAST |
Exchange | Native Order Flow | FIX Order Flow | Market Data |
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Taiwan Stock Exchange | TMP (TWSE Message Protocol) | 4.4 | FIX/FAST |
Taipei Exchange | TMP (TWSE Message Protocol) | 4.4 | |
Tokyo Stock Exchange | Arrowhead | 4.2 | FLEX |
Indonesia Stock Exchange | OUCH | FIX 5.0 | ITCH |
Singapore Exchange Securities Trading (SGXST) | OMEX | - | |
Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading (SGXDT) | OMEX | - | |
Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) | OCG | - | OMD |
Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE) | OMEX | - | OMD |
National Stock Exchange (NSE) | NEAT [1] |
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