Exchange
base: StringFIX 4.4FIX 4.2FIX 5.0 SP2
Exchange is a FIX datatype defined in FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2 and FIX 5.0 SP2, carried on the wire as String. 6 fields use it.
Wire format
- Base type
- String
- Fields
- 6
A market identifier, in practice an ISO 10383 MIC.
What the specification says
FIX 4.4
string field representing a market or exchange using ISO 10383 Market Identifier Code (MIC) values (see Appendix 6-C).
FIX 4.2
String field (see definition of "String" above) representing a market or exchange. (see Appendix C-Reuters Exchange Mnemonics).
FIX 5.0 SP2
4-character code
Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.
How @boarteam/fix handles it
@boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.
Fields with this datatype
| Tag | Field | Dialects | Messages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | LastMkt | FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 6 |
| 100 | ExDestination | FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 10 |
| 207 | SecurityExchange | FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 59 |
| 275 | MDMkt | FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 2 |
| 308 | UnderlyingSecurityExchange | FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 59 |
| 616 | LegSecurityExchange | FIX 4.4, FIX 5.0 SP2 | 50 |
Decode this in your own code
The same engine that produced the decoded example above is an Apache-2.0 npm package with zero runtime dependencies. It runs in Node and in the browser, and parse() returns problems as data instead of throwing.
npm i @boarteam/fix @boarteam/fix-dict-fix44