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Prodigy Digital Exchange

The Prodigy exchange provides symbology, order execution, trade matching, news feeds, and supporting exchange services.

Concepts

Section titled “Concepts”

The process of creating a market for tradeable assets and matching their potential buyers with sellers is a complex task.

Prodigy provides a self-contained platform for this purpose, able to be used in conjunction with the Plxtra infrastructure, or offered directly to partners over industry standard protocols.

  • Scalable, to handle markets both big and small.
  • High availability, to ensure minimal service disruption when problems occur.
  • Flexible, able to represent whatever tradeable assets and rules you might require.
  • Performant, optimised for high throughput to handle the busiest markets.

Extensibility

Section titled “Extensibility”
  • Market Model plugins.
    Extend the basic model of a Symbol, Order, or Trade with additional business information.
  • Execution Engine plugins.
    Add new logic for matching orders, and new market operations to manipulate the state of the market.
  • FIX application plugins.
    Customise the FIX protocol spoken by the server.

APIs

Section titled “APIs”
  • Internal REST API for market control operations.
  • Public REST API for reference and historical data access.
  • FIX API for order requests, execution reports, and market data
  • CLI API for operations and querying