Technology

T7 Trading Architecture Release 7.1

Nodal Exchange has introduced T7, a powerful trading platform, which delivers ultra-low latency, robustness and safe handling of very high throughput. T7 also significantly reduces time-to-market for introducing new products and features and allows for a more flexible schedule for software updates. Additionally, the new trading architecture enables trading participants to trade purely manually (point and click) via Nodal’s trading screen, powered by CQG.

Overview and Functionality

• T7 Release 7.1 - Functional Reference v.1.3
  
  This document provides a detailed insight into the functional concepts of the T7 architecture.
• T7 Release 7.1 - Functional and Interface Overview v.1.1
  
  This document provides and overview of T7. It describes the major functional system features and provides a high-level description of the interface landscape.

Network Access

• Nodal T7 - Network Access Guide v1.3
  
  This document provides details on the network access options for T7 interfaces. It includes detailed technical background information, such as router equipment information and part numbers for the configuration of firewalls.

High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

• Insights into Trading System Dynamics
  
  This presentation informs about recent system enhancements and gives some remarks on future enhancements of the T7 trading architecture.

Market and Reference Data Interfaces

• T7 Market and Reference Data Interfaces - Manual v7.1.2
  
  The document provides information relating to the market and reference data interfaces (EDMI, MDI, RDI, and RDF) and contains a detailed description of the concepts and messages used by the interfaces.
• T7 Market + Reference Data Interfaces - XML FAST Templates - FIXML schema files v7.1.2
  
  The package contains the XML FAST template files (FAST 1.1 and 1.2) and FIXML schema files for the T7 market and reference data interfaces (EDMI, MDI, and RDI).
• T7 Enhanced Order Book Interface - Manual v7.1-4.16
  
  The document provides information relating to the T7 Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI) and contains detailed description of the concepts and messages used by the interfaces.
• T7 Enhanced Order Book Interface - XML Representation v7.1-4.16
  
  The package contains the XML representation and the schema files for the T7 Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI).

Trading Interfaces

• T7 Enhanced Trading Interface - Manual v1.3
  
  This document provides information relating to the T7 Enhanced Trading Interface (ETI) and contains detailed description of the concepts and the messages used by the interface for both the Cash and Derivatives Markets.
• T7 Enhanced Trading Interface - Derivatives Message Reference v.7.1-D0003
  
  This document provides a reference to all message formats for the Enhanced Trading Interface Derivatives markets.
• T7 Enhanced Trading Interface -XSD XML representation and layouts
  
  The package contains the XML representation and the schema files for the Enhanced Trading Interface (ETI) for both the Cash and Derivatives Markets.

Production

• T7 Incident Handling Guide v4.2
  
  This document provides a detailed description of the reaction of Deutsche Borse's T7 trading system to technical incidents and provides best practices for handling them. In addition, the document provides references to the respective focus days in the T& simulation environment which are intended to simulate such incidents.

T7 Trading Architecture Release 6.1

Overview and Functionality

• Introduction to the T7 Trading Architecture (May 23, 2018)
  
  This document provides a high-level overview of the new Nodal trading venue which is based on the T7 trading architecture. It also touches on the connectivity options and available technical interfaces.
• T7 Release 6.1 - Functional Reference v.6.1.2 (April 30, 2018)
  
  This document provides a detailed insight into the functional concepts of the T7 trading architecture.
• T7 Release 6.1 - Functional and Interface Overview v.6.1.1 (April 25, 2018)
  
  The document provides an overview of T7. It describes the major functional and system features, and provides a high-level description of the interface landscape.

Network Access

• Nodal T7 – Network Access Guide v1.2 (September 12, 2018)
  
  This document provides details on the network access options for T7 interfaces. It includes detailed technical background information, such as router equipment information and port numbers for the configuration of firewalls.

High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

• Insights into Trading System Dynamics (March 2018)
  
  The presentation informs about recent system enhancements and gives some remarks on future enhancements of the T7 trading architecture.

Market and Reference Data Interfaces

• T7 Market and Reference Data Interfaces - Manual v.6.1.1 (May 23, 2018)
  
  The document provides information relating to the market and reference data interfaces (EMDI, MDI, RDI and RDF) and contains a detailed description of the concepts and messages used by the interfaces.
• T7 Market + Reference Data Interfaces - XML FAST Templates - FIXML schema files v.6.1.1 (May 23, 2018)
  
  The package contains the XML FAST template files (FAST 1.1 and 1.2) and FIXML schema files for the T7 market and reference data interfaces (EMDI, MDI and RDI).
• T7 Enhanced Order Book Interface - Manual v.6.1 (March 26, 2018)
  
  The document provides information relating to the T7 Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI) and contains a detailed description of the concepts and messages used by the interfaces.
• T7 Enhanced Order Book Interface - XML Representation v.6.1 (March 26, 2018)
  
  The package contains the XML representation and the schema files for the T7 Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI).

Trading Interfaces

• T7 Enhanced Trading Interface - Manual v1.2 (May 23, 2018)
  
  The document provides information relating to the T7 Enhanced Trading Interface (ETI) and contains a detailed description of the concepts and the messages used by the interface for both the Cash and Derivatives Markets.
• T7 Enhanced Trading Interface - Derivatives Message Reference v.6.1-D0002 (April 24, 2018)
  
  This document provides a reference to all message formats for the Enhanced Trading Interface derivatives markets.
• T7 Enhanced Trading Interface - XSD XML representation and layouts (May 23, 2018)
  
  The package contains the XML representation and the schema files for the Enhanced Trading Interface (ETI) for both the Cash and Derivatives Markets.