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Quote (MsgType S)

applicationFIX 4.4FIX 4.2

Quote is the FIX message with MsgType S, defined in FIX 4.4 and FIX 4.2. It is an application-level message: it carries a business event rather than managing the session. Its body has 61 top-level members once the standard header and trailer are counted.

MsgType is case-sensitive
S is Quote, but s is a different message entirely — NewOrderCross. Twenty-three FIX message types differ from another only by letter case.

A real Quote

Quote · FIX 4.4
TagFieldWire valueMeaning
8BeginStringFIX.4.4
9BodyLength75
35MsgTypeSQuote
49SenderCompIDBOARTEAM
56TargetCompIDCOUNTERPARTY
34MsgSeqNum2
52SendingTime20240101-12:00:00.000
117QuoteIDEXAMPLE
10CheckSum183
Edit and decode it yourself

Shown with | separators for readability. On the wire FIX uses SOH (0x01), an invisible control byte — and because BodyLength and CheckSum are computed over the actual bytes, the two forms have different checksums. Both are valid and both decode here.

Open in the full decoder →

Generated from the FIX 4.4 dictionary and verified at build time: it parses and validates with no issues. Open the decoder to try your own message.

Message body — FIX 4.4

Components are listed by name and link to their own page rather than being expanded inline; repeating groups are expanded, including where they nest.

Message body — FIX 4.2

Components are listed by name and link to their own page rather than being expanded inline; repeating groups are expanded, including where they nest.

What changed between the dialects

Present in FIX 4.4 only (40)

tag 693, tag 537, QuotQualGrp, Parties, tag 625, Instrument, FinancingDetails, UndInstrmtGrp, tag 54, OrderQtyData, tag 63, Stipulations, tag 1, tag 660, tag 581, LegQuotGrp, tag 645, tag 646, tag 647, tag 648, tag 631, tag 632, tag 633, tag 634, tag 642, tag 643, tag 656, tag 657, tag 156, tag 13, tag 12, tag 582, tag 100, tag 528, tag 423, SpreadOrBenchmarkCurveData, YieldData, tag 58, tag 354, tag 355

Present in FIX 4.2 only (19)

tag 55, tag 65, tag 48, tag 22, tag 167, tag 200, tag 205, tag 201, tag 202, tag 206, tag 231, tag 223, tag 207, tag 106, tag 348, tag 349, tag 107, tag 350, tag 351

Handle Quote in TypeScript

decode.tsts
import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix44";​const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);​if (message.msgType === "S") {  message.name;            // "Quote"  // fields are keyed by tag; repeating groups live on message.groups}​// Problems come back as data, never as exceptions:issues;                    // FixIssue[]fix.validate(message);     // dictionary-level problems

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
Try the decoderSource on GitHub