QuoteQualifier (FIX tag 695)

charFIX 4.4FIX 5.0 SP2

QuoteQualifier (tag 695) is a char field defined in FIX 4.4 and FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 5 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 695
Name: QuoteQualifier
Datatype: char
Dialects: FIX 4.4 and FIX 5.0 SP2
Messages: 5

What the specification says

FIX 4.4

Code to qualify Quote use See IOIQualifier (04) for description and valid values.

FIX 5.0 SP2

Code to qualify Quote use and other aspects of price negotiation.

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

A real message using tag 695

Quote · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	93
35	MsgType	S	Quote
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
117	QuoteID	EXAMPLE
735	NoQuoteQualifiers2 entries	2	repeating group
695	QuoteQualifier	1
695	QuoteQualifier	1
10	CheckSum	236

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 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 695 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 5.0 SP2	Where in the message
Quote	S	Conditional	Optional	inside the QuotQualGrp component
QuoteRequest	R	Conditional	Optional	inside QuotReqGrp › QuotQualGrp
QuoteRequestReject	AG	Conditional	Optional	inside QuotReqRjctGrp › QuotQualGrp
QuoteResponse	AJ	Conditional	Optional	inside the QuotQualGrp component
QuoteStatusReport	AI	Conditional	Optional	inside the QuotQualGrp component

Wire format

A single character. Most char fields are enumerated, so the value is one of a fixed set rather than arbitrary text. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string and, for enumerated fields, reports validate/value-not-in-enum when it is not a defined value.

Read tag 695 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[695];field?.name;   // "QuoteQualifier"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a string

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-fix44

Try the decoder Source on GitHub