FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Direct answers to the questions brokerage management, dealing, risk, and technology teams usually ask first.
What makes a CoinPriceFeeds feed customizable?
Each client feed has its own pricing rules, symbol set, state, and delivery. Your team can define source combination or priority, markups, spread controls, precision, schedules, and selected protection settings. Read about the pricing engine.
Can our dealers change spreads and markups?
Yes. Authorized staff can edit the client’s rules sheet, then ask the feed to validate and load it. Fixed and relative markups, minimum and maximum spread controls, precision, and rounding can be set by symbol.
Can we combine several liquidity or reference sources?
Yes. A symbol can use a median or average across valid sources, a conservative widest quote, or a defined priority with a fresh backup. Different symbols can use different policies.
Can we use our own source prices?
Yes. Prices from a client platform, bridge, or proprietary publisher can enter the same flow as institutional, exchange, and reference data. Private inputs remain isolated to the client account.
Which external sources are available?
Available examples include LMAX, oneZero, and Match-Trade over FIX; Binance spot and futures, Bitfinex, HitBTC, HTX/Huobi, and OKX; plus TrueFX and FXCM reference inputs. Availability depends on venue access, entitlements, instrument support, and onboarding. See market data sources.
What happens when one source stops quoting?
An explicitly unavailable source is removed from dependent calculations, which are recomputed from valid inputs. A source that silently freezes stops qualifying when it becomes stale. A valid backup can then take over if the symbol’s policy defines one.
How are bad ticks and stale prices handled?
Configurable gap protection can retain the previous accepted value instead of passing through an abnormal jump. Stale, late, zero, negative, non-finite, and crossed quotes are prevented from becoming normal output. The dashboard shows the reason. Read about quote protection.
Can pricing change automatically by session or weekday?
Yes. A feed can keep several rule pages and use a weekly schedule to choose the active policy by time and day. The dashboard visualizes the schedule and the page active now.
Do you deliver over FIX?
Yes. CoinPriceFeeds supports FIX 4.4 market-data delivery in acceptor mode, where the client connects in, and initiator mode, where CoinPriceFeeds connects outbound. Detailed session settings are agreed privately.
Is there a simpler alternative to FIX?
Yes. A small line-based TCP protocol delivers symbol, bid, and ask without a proprietary SDK. Clients can request a symbol list at connection time. See delivery and integrations.
Can one feed serve multiple platforms or consumers?
Yes. The same client-specific output can serve several streaming or FIX consumers. FIX subscriptions are held per session, and one slow or failed consumer does not stop the others.
Do you provide native plug-ins for trading platforms?
CoinPriceFeeds normally delivers to the brokerage’s existing bridge, FIX consumer, or integration layer rather than claiming a native plug-in for every platform. We confirm the practical connection path during scoping. See delivery and integrations.
Which markets and instruments are suitable?
The system can support FX, metals, crypto, and synthetic or CFD-style instruments when suitable source data and usage rights are available. The exact symbol set is confirmed from your sources, venue access, and pricing policy.
Do we receive primary and backup connections?
A feed can be provisioned on concurrent primary and backup endpoints. Placement and network paths are scoped around the client’s infrastructure. Both endpoints expose the pricing-rule version they loaded.
Can we use dedicated infrastructure?
Yes. Dedicated capacity or an exclusive deployment can be scoped when a brokerage needs a separate network boundary, client-specific hostnames, or closer placement to its own infrastructure.
How can we verify that both endpoints agree?
A configuration fingerprint is available on the stream, dashboard, and monitoring. Comparison tooling can also sample prices, spreads, activity, and symbol liveness across both endpoints. Read about redundancy.
What can users see and change in the dashboard?
Readers can see current prices, age, source relationships, status reasons, schedules, and configuration versions. Writers can also apply a validated rules-sheet update or reset protected quote state. See the dashboard overview.
What information do you need to scope a feed?
Start with required instruments, available sources, representative pricing policies, target platforms, preferred delivery protocol, primary/backup expectations, and the staff who own pricing, integration, and monitoring.
How is pricing structured?
Pricing depends on instrument coverage, source and destination work, infrastructure, and any dedicated requirements. Use the request form for current pricing based on the feed you need.
A feed shaped around your setup
Still have a specific question?
Describe the source, symbol, pricing control, platform, or failure case and we’ll answer at the right level.