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Spot Exchange FIX API Sessions, Order Handling, and Market Data

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Summary

This technical reference describes FIX and FIX SBE connectivity for a spot exchange. It distinguishes order-entry, drop-copy, and market-data sessions; explains API-key permissions, TLS and signing requirements, connection lifecycle, heartbeats, message sequencing, response behavior, limits, and error handling; and catalogs administrative, order, and market-data message types. The later sections outline SBE encoding, endpoint roles, and how incremental market-data fields can be interpreted when reconstructing book updates.

For trading-system developers, these details inform order submission, execution reporting, session recovery, and market-data ingestion. The document notes that requests can time out while matching-engine status remains uncertain, so clients may need to query order status. It also describes delayed drop-copy data and possible event culling under load for certain SBE streams. This is an API integration reference rather than a trading strategy, and its stated scope is spot trading; clients must account for the exchange’s message rules, connection behavior, and operational constraints.

Key ideas

  • The reference separates FIX sessions for order entry, execution copying, and market data.
  • Clients must follow the documented authentication, encryption, sequencing, heartbeat, and logout rules.
  • A request timeout may leave execution status uncertain, requiring a separate status query.
  • Drop-copy delay and market-data event culling can affect how systems interpret incoming updates.
  • The API covers spot exchange connectivity and does not itself provide a trading strategy.

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CryptoSpot marketsExecutionMarket microstructure

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