Through TT FIX Adapter, Variance Futures institutional clients have access to a wide variety of third party trading front ends as well as the ability to write their own black box automated trading systems directly to the TT gateways.
Variance Futures chose TT FIX Adapter as it provides our clients with access to the fastest and most reliable gateways to the world's futures exchanges.
With pre-trade risk controls, no time is wasted in getting your orders routed to the exchanges.

What is the FIX Adapter?
TT offers multiple products built on the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol to increase your connectivity opportunities and provide the competitive edge you need in today's trading environment. These market-leading FIX solutions are revolutionizing connectivity. In a best-of-breed solution, TT's FIX Adapter enables Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) and other organizations to integrate an existing front-end application or black box trading system with TT's high-speed, ultra-reliable exchange gateways. This means you can use your existing order-entry system and built-in applications to route orders to the primary futures markets via TT's gateways. Whether you're writing a black box application for high-speed trade routing or tying in an external trading front-end, TT's FIX Adapter has the feature-set and performance capabilities to give you the extra edge you've been seeking.

Benefits of TT's FIX Adapter

• Support for FIX 4.2 protocol
• Runs seamlessly on Windows 2000/NT/XP and Unix* (*in future release)
• Use TT's ultra-reliable, high-speed gateways to route orders to the primary futures markets
• Focus your efforts on trading rather than maintenance of exchange connections
• Leverage your existing electronic trading infrastructure
• Access all exchange-supported functionality, including spread and strategy trading
• Support market data through FIX protocol.

Speed
TT has earned a reputation as the market leader when it comes to speed. TT's FIX Adapter provides the same high-speed performance as al TT products. Tests indicate that TT's FIX Adapter can easily handle several hundred orders per second without any performance degradation. TT's robust FIX Adapter can process exchange price feeds in real time without sacrificing speed or performance.

Flexibility
TT's FIX Adapter allows FCMs, banks and other organizations to connect an existing frontend with TT's exchange gateways. You can use the FIX Adapter market data connection to request security definitions and market data, including last trade, high, low, settlement, open, close and market depth for both bid and ask. You also can configure the FIX Adapter as a back office fill feed to ignore order information and receive fill data from the exchange.
The FIX Adapter supports TT's risk management for trader and product setups, including position and credit limit risk configurations on all orders placed through the FIX Adapter.
The FIX Adapter maintains a running position count for all contracts and applies the prior day's positions to the current day.

Support
TT has a dedicated team to support all FIX Adapter customers. Our Development Technical Support (DTS) team will consult with you throughout your development cycle.
Additionally, TT's FIX development group is available to work closely with you to most effectively bridge TT's FIX Adapter with your trading application. Finally, they will help you with conformance testing to ensure that your applications are fully integrated with TT's gateways and other applications.

Joining the TT Developer Program
When you join the TT Developer Program, you will have access to documentation, training materials and the latest development and test tools. You also will be able to work with TT's API support team to guide your FIX Adapter installation and use. And if you are a third-party application developer, you can utilize the expertise of TT's API support team to expand your exchange functionality knowledge.

• FIX Adapter Developer's Reference Manuals
• FIX Adapter System Administration Manuals
• FIX Adapter Developer's Environment
• Access to Developer's Forums
• Third-party referrals from TT for trading application development

TT's FIX Adapter Integration