LegOrderQty (FIX tag 685)

QtyFIX 5.0 SP2

LegOrderQty (tag 685) is a Qty field defined in FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 8 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 685
Name: LegOrderQty
Datatype: Qty (float)
Dialects: FIX 5.0 SP2
Messages: 8

What the specification says

Quantity ordered of this leg.

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

A real message using tag 685

ExecutionReport · FIX 5.0 SP2

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIXT.1.1
9	BodyLength	177
35	MsgType	8	ExecutionReport
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
37	OrderID	ORD-10042
17	ExecID	EXEC-88117
150	ExecType	0	New
39	OrdStatus	0	New
54	Side	1	Buy
151	LeavesQty	0
14	CumQty	1000000
555	NoLegs2 entries	2	repeating group
600	LegSymbol	EXAMPLE
685	LegOrderQty	1000000
600	LegSymbol	EXAMPLE
685	LegOrderQty	1000000
10	CheckSum	206

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 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 685 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
ExecutionReport	8	Optional	inside the InstrmtLegExecGrp component
MultilegOrderCancelReplace	AC	Optional	inside the LegOrdGrp component
NewOrderMultileg	AB	Optional	inside the LegOrdGrp component
Quote	S	Optional	inside the LegQuotGrp component
QuoteRequest	R	Optional	inside QuotReqGrp › QuotReqLegsGrp
QuoteRequestReject	AG	Optional	inside QuotReqRjctGrp › QuotReqLegsGrp
QuoteResponse	AJ	Optional	inside the LegQuotGrp component
QuoteStatusReport	AI	Optional	inside the LegQuotStatGrp component

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 685 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[685];field?.name;   // "LegOrderQty"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a number

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

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