Yield (FIX tag 236)

PercentageFIX 4.4

Yield (tag 236) is a Percentage field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 17 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 236
Name: Yield
Datatype: Percentage (float)
Dialects: FIX 4.4
Messages: 17

What the specification says

Yield percentage. (Note tag # was reserved in FIX 4.1, added in FIX 4.3)

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

A real message using tag 236

NewOrderSingle · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	120
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
54	Side	1	Buy
60	TransactTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
40	OrdType	1	Market
236	Yield	0.05
10	CheckSum	140

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 236 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
AllocationInstruction	J	Optional	inside the YieldData component
AllocationReport	AS	Optional	inside the YieldData component
Confirmation	AK	Optional	inside the YieldData component
CrossOrderCancelReplaceRequest	t	Optional	inside the YieldData component
ExecutionReport	8	Optional	inside the YieldData component
IOI	6	Optional	inside the YieldData component
NewOrderCross	s	Optional	inside the YieldData component
NewOrderList	E	Optional	inside ListOrdGrp › YieldData
NewOrderSingle	D	Optional	inside the YieldData component
OrderCancelReplaceRequest	G	Optional	inside the YieldData component
Quote	S	Optional	inside the YieldData component
QuoteRequest	R	Optional	inside QuotReqGrp › YieldData
QuoteRequestReject	AG	Optional	inside QuotReqRjctGrp › YieldData
QuoteResponse	AJ	Optional	inside the YieldData component
QuoteStatusReport	AI	Optional	inside the YieldData component
SecurityList	y	Optional	inside SecListGrp › YieldData
TradeCaptureReport	AE	Optional	inside the YieldData component

Wire format

A decimal rate where 1.0 means 100%, not 1%. @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 236 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[236];field?.name;   // "Yield"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a number

Decode this in your own code

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