ContraryInstructionIndicator (FIX tag 719)

BooleanFIX 4.4

ContraryInstructionIndicator (tag 719) is a Boolean field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 1 message type, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 719
Name: ContraryInstructionIndicator
Datatype: Boolean (char)
Dialects: FIX 4.4
Messages: 1

What the specification says

Required to be set to true (Y) when a position maintenance request is being performed contrary to current money position. Required when an exercise of an out of the money position is requested or an abandonement (do not exercise ) for an in the money position.

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

A real message using tag 719

PositionMaintenanceRequest · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	151
35	MsgType	AL	Position Maintenance Request
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
710	PosReqID	EXAMPLE
709	PosTransType	1	Exercise
712	PosMaintAction	1	New: used to increment the overall transaction quantity
715	ClearingBusinessDate	20240101
1	Account	ACCT-11223
581	AccountType	1	Account is carried on customer Side of Books
60	TransactTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
719	ContraryInstructionIndicator	N
10	CheckSum	050

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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Where tag 719 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
PositionMaintenanceRequest	AL	Optional	directly on the message body

Wire format

Y or N. Not 1/0, and not true/false. @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 719 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[719];field?.name;   // "ContraryInstructionIndicator"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a boolean

Decode this in your own code

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