MDPriceLevel (FIX tag 1023)

intFIX 5.0 SP2

MDPriceLevel (tag 1023) is an int field defined in FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 2 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag
1023
Name
MDPriceLevel
Datatype
int
Dialects
FIX 5.0 SP2
Messages
2

What the specification says

Integer to convey the level of a bid or offer at a given price level. This is in contrast to MDEntryPositionNo(290) which is used to convey the position of an order within a price level.

Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.

A real message using tag 1023

MarketDataSnapshotFullRefresh · FIX 5.0 SP2
TagFieldWire valueMeaning
8BeginStringFIXT.1.1
9BodyLength95
35MsgTypeWMarketDataSnapshotFullRefresh
49SenderCompIDBOARTEAM
56TargetCompIDCOUNTERPARTY
34MsgSeqNum2
52SendingTime20240101-12:00:00.000
268NoMDEntries2 entries2repeating group
269MDEntryType0Bid
1023MDPriceLevel1
269MDEntryType0Bid
1023MDPriceLevel1
10CheckSum192
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.

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Generated from the FIX 5.0 SP2 dictionary and verified at build time: it parses and validates with no issues. Open the decoder to try your own message.

Where tag 1023 appears

Requiredness is a property of the message, not of the field: the same tag can be optional in one message and conditionally required in another.

MessageMsgTypeRequirednessWhere in the message
MarketDataIncrementalRefreshXOptionalinside the MDIncGrp component
MarketDataSnapshotFullRefreshWOptionalinside the MDFullGrp component

Wire format

A whole number, optionally signed. Leading zeros are legal on the wire and are preserved in the raw value. @boarteam/fix parses the value as a number and reports parse/invalid-int when it does not lex as one; the raw string is kept either way.

Read tag 1023 in TypeScript

decode.tsts
import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix50sp2";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);const field = message.fields[1023];field?.name;   // "MDPriceLevel"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a number

Other int fields

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-fix50sp2