Hotspot brings the powerful benefits of an independent, transparent ECN marketplace structure to foreign exchange trading. Hotspot FX operates two leading, spot FX ECN marketplaces for individuals (Hotspot FXr) and institutional traders (Hotspot FXi) respectively.

The OnixS directConnect: Hotspot FXi solutions provide ITCH and FIX Market Data, and FIX Trading access solutions for automated trading strategies.

The OnixS directConnect: Hotspot FXi FIX Market Data and FIX Trade Handler includes a bundle of the high performance OnixS FIX Engines and FAST Encoder/Decoder implementations with an Hotspot FXi specific FIX variant dialect and sample trading client reference implementation source code. It is available in .NET, C++ and Java implementations. Features include:

• Based on high-performance OnixS FIX Engine implementations
• Supports both session and application level requirements
• Fully supported and maintained FIX Order Routing specific FIX Dialect
• Multithreaded architecture.
• Pre-calibrated and pre-certified

The OnixS directConnect: Hotspot FXi ITCH Market Data Handler is a class library that provides access to real-time order book information from the Hotspot ECN book via Hotspot ECN ITCH Protocol. Features include:

• Business objects level API that significantly simplifies the access to order book information from the Hotspot ECN
• Low latency, high throughput