fix-protocol-financial-trading

fix-protocol-financial-trading is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (3,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to FIX, or Financial Information eXchange, a messaging standard used by trading systems to send orders and market data. It covers FIX versions, session state, message recovery, order routing, and low-latency processing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or configure trading, order-management, or market-data systems that communicate through FIX and QuickFIX.
Why use it?
It helps trading software keep messages in order, recover missing messages, maintain live sessions, and route orders reliably.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to build or configure trading, order-management, or market-data systems that communicate through FIX and QuickFIX.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/fix-protocol-financial-trading
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hamzabellouch/agent-skills --skill fix-protocol-financial-trading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,093 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.03093
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01546
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00619
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00309

Measured 7d ago against content hash f7e1f44c8232, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fix-protocol-financial-trading scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Financial and Fintech Engineering/fix-protocol-financial-trading/SKILL.md · 282 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 282 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FIX Protocol Financial Trading & Messaging Architecture

This skill package defines enterprise standards for high-frequency financial trading systems, order management systems (OMS), and execution management systems (EMS) utilizing FIX (Financial Information eXchange) protocol versions 4.2, 4.4, and 5.0 SP2 (FIXML / SBE).


1. Core Session & Application Architecture

Session Layer Management & Resend Recovery

  • Session State Persistence: Maintain strictly synchronized sequence numbers (MsgSeqNum, Tag 34) for incoming and outgoing messages. Store session state in memory-mapped files (MMAP) or persistent low-latency disk storage.
  • Sequence Gap Handling & Recovery:
    • When an incoming MsgSeqNum is greater than expected, immediately issue a ResendRequest (MsgType 2, Tag 35=2).
    • Respond to incoming ResendRequest messages by re-sending administrative messages as SequenceReset-GapFill (MsgType 4, Tag 35=4, Tag 123 GapFillFlag=Y) and re-sending application messages with PossDupFlag=Y (Tag 43).
  • Heartbeat & Test Request Loop: Send Heartbeat (Tag 35=0) at specified HeartBtInt (Tag 108) intervals. If no activity is received within HeartBtInt + Margin, issue a TestRequest (Tag 35=1) with a unique TestReqID (Tag 112). Drop session if response is absent.

Low-Latency Messaging Engineering

  • Zero-GC & Zero-Copy Memory Management: Eliminate object allocations on hot execution paths. Utilize ring buffers (e.g., LMAX Disruptor pattern) and pre-allocated byte buffers for message serialization.
  • Encoding Formats: Use SBE (Simple Binary Encoding) or FAST (FIX Adapted for STreaming) for ultra-low latency market data feeds over UDP multicast, replacing legacy tag-value pairs.
  • Transport Security & Network Topologies: Enforce mTLS 1.3 or IPsec VPN tunnels across dedicated cross-connects (Equinix NY4, LD4, TY3). Enable TCP_NODELAY (disable Nagle's algorithm) and pin thread CPU affinity.

2. Key FIX Tag Reference Matrix

Read the full file on GitHub · 282 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 282 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A f7e1f44c8232

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fix-protocol-financial-trading is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 3,093 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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