FIX Protocol LTD is a trade association that publishes free, open standards in the securities trading area. Members include virtually all large and many midsize and smaller broker dealers, money center banks, institutional investors, mutual funds, etc. This institution dominates standard setting in the pretrade and trade areas of security transactions. In 2006-2007 several members got together and published a draft XML standard for expressing algorithmic order types. The standard is called FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language (FIXatdl). Currently targeting 2009 for final release, FIXatdl is now in broad beta testing with the following firms participating: Barclays, Bloomberg Tradebook, Cheuvreux, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank , Credit Suisse, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, ITG, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, NeoNet, Pragma@Weeden, and UBS AG.