QuoteQualifier (FIX tag 695)

charFIX 4.4

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

At a glance

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

What the specification says

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

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