MinQty (FIX tag 110)

QtyFIX 4.4FIX 4.2

MinQty (tag 110) is a Qty field defined in FIX 4.4 and FIX 4.2. It appears in 10 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 110
Name: MinQty
Datatype: Qty (float)
Dialects: FIX 4.4 and FIX 4.2
Messages: 10

What the specification says

Minimum quantity of an order to be executed. (Prior to FIX 4.2 this field was of type int)

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

A real message using tag 110

NewOrderSingle · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	123
35	MsgType	D	Order – Single
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
11	ClOrdID	ORD-10042
110	MinQty	1000000
54	Side	1	Buy
60	TransactTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
40	OrdType	1	Market
10	CheckSum	020

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

Where tag 110 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	FIX 4.4	FIX 4.2	Where in the message
CrossOrderCancelReplaceRequest	t	Optional	—	directly on the message body
ExecutionReport	8	Optional	Optional	directly on the message body
MarketDataIncrementalRefresh	X	Optional	Optional	inside the MDIncGrp component
MarketDataSnapshotFullRefresh	W	Optional	Optional	inside the MDFullGrp component
MultilegOrderCancelReplace	AC	Optional	—	directly on the message body
NewOrderCross	s	Optional	—	directly on the message body
NewOrderList	E	Optional	Optional	inside the ListOrdGrp component
NewOrderMultileg	AB	Optional	—	directly on the message body
NewOrderSingle	D	Optional	Optional	directly on the message body
OrderCancelReplaceRequest	G	Optional	Optional	directly on the message body

Wire format

A decimal quantity. Fractional quantities are legal, which is why this is a float family rather than an integer. @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 110 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);const field = message.fields[110];field?.name;   // "MinQty"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a number

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npm i @boarteam/fix @boarteam/fix-dict-fix44

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