Challenges When Developing a GUI for FIX

This article explores the challenges in developing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Financial Information eXchange (FIX) data. FIX is both a protocol and a message format, but to create a FIX GUI we will focus just on the message format. A FIX message is a standard message format for transmitting financial and investment banking data.

Below is an example of a FIX message: