Your Guide to Understanding Key Concepts and Terminology
11 September, 2026
Forex Trading APIs Explained: REST, WebSocket, FIX and MT5
REST, WebSocket, FIX and MT5 are often presented as four competing forex APIs. They are not. REST is usually the cleanest way to request account data, load history or send an occasional command. WebSocket keeps a connection open so prices and order updates can arrive as they happen. FIX is a financial messaging standard used […]
8 September, 2026
Liquidity Bridge vs Aggregator vs Liquidity Provider: Who Does What?
When a broker tells me it has “liquidity connected,” I ask one question: can the team draw the route of an order from the trading platform to the company that fills it? If the diagram has one box labelled LP / bridge / aggregator, the setup is not understood yet. These layers can come in […]