LegOfferForwardPoints (FIX tag 1068)

PriceOffsetFIX 5.0 SP2

LegOfferForwardPoints (tag 1068) is a PriceOffset field defined in FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 2 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 1068
Name: LegOfferForwardPoints
Datatype: PriceOffset (float)
Dialects: FIX 5.0 SP2
Messages: 2

What the specification says

The offer FX forward points for the leg of an FX Swap. Value can be negative. Expressed in decimal form. For example, 61.99 points is expressed and sent as 0.006199

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

A real message using tag 1068

Quote · FIX 5.0 SP2

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIXT.1.1
9	BodyLength	131
35	MsgType	S	Quote
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
117	QuoteID	EXAMPLE
555	NoLegs2 entries	2	repeating group
600	LegSymbol	EXAMPLE
1068	LegOfferForwardPoints	0.00010
600	LegSymbol	EXAMPLE
1068	LegOfferForwardPoints	0.00010
10	CheckSum	181

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 1068 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.

Message	MsgType	Requiredness	Where in the message
Quote	S	Optional	inside the LegQuotGrp component
QuoteResponse	AJ	Optional	inside the LegQuotGrp component

Wire format

A signed decimal price delta. Negative values are legal and meaningful. @boarteam/fix parses the value as a number and reports parse/invalid-float when it does not lex as one; the raw string is kept so precision and trailing zeros are never lost.

Read tag 1068 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[1068];field?.name;   // "LegOfferForwardPoints"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a number

Other PriceOffset fields

Decode this in your own code

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