Sniffer FIX Intelligence

One of the most pressing issues impacting financial industry firms is how to increase speed and reduce latency in trade execution venues. The organizations that comprise this exceptionally technology-driven ecosystem – financial exchanges, trading houses, hedge funds, investment banks, and financial institutions’ trading desks – must execute business at sub-second speed.

NetScout is committed to meet the specific needs of financial services firms transmitting FIX-based trade order flows. Our FIX Intelligence solution, powered by nGenius InfiniStream, provides predefined and customizable graphical views for analysis of FIX-based order flows. Using the solution, financial organizations can:

• Enable IT managers to troubleshoot and optimize the speed and efficiency of market trading networks
• Provide latency and performance measures to optimize algorithmic trading applications
• Drill down into market movements and asset classes and optimize systems and networks for them
• Efficiently monitor and support order routing, settlement, and clearing networks and systems
  

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• Broad set of performance metrics on market data flows: stream efficiency, IP delay variations, retransmissions, packet loss identification, out-of-sequence packet analysis, microburst analysis, etc.
• Breadth of supported multicast stacks and customizable templates to support additional market data feeds
• Ability to analyze market data feeds, even those which are uniquely collapsed and provided by trading platforms such as Wombat, Trading Technologies, etc.

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Trade Order Flow Analysis
The Sniffer InfiniStream Financial Intelligence solution includes an array of performance metrics for latency monitoring and analysis of FIX-enabled transactions and trade order flows. The FIX Intelligence module enables financial IT managers to effectively troubleshoot FIX transaction performance, determine latencies for all FIX transactions, and optimize algorithmic trading applications.

• Track flow and latency of individual trades, and measure latencies per order type (such as Order Fill versus Order Replace)
• Analyze latencies and delta times of orders and partial fills and their messages
• View session summaries per trading station and drill down by ECN, Market, Currency, Security Type, etc.
• Analyze latencies of trading stations, exchange order execution, quotes, and mass quote messages
• Report on trends of latencies over time and transaction delay distributions
• Leverages data from nGenius InfiniStream