PctAtRisk (FIX tag 869)

PercentageFIX 4.4

PctAtRisk (tag 869) is a Percentage field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 11 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 869
Name: PctAtRisk
Datatype: Percentage (float)
Dialects: FIX 4.4
Messages: 11

What the specification says

Percent at risk due to lowest possible call.

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

A real message using tag 869

AllocationInstruction · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	138
35	MsgType	J	Allocation Instruction
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
70	AllocID	EXAMPLE
71	AllocTransType	0	New
626	AllocType	1	Calculated (includes MiscFees and NetMoney)
857	AllocNoOrdersType	0	Not specified
54	Side	1	Buy
869	PctAtRisk	0.05
53	Quantity	1000000
6	AvgPx	1.09215
75	TradeDate	20240101
10	CheckSum	032

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 869 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 InstrumentExtension component
AllocationReport	AS	Optional	inside the InstrumentExtension component
Confirmation	AK	Optional	inside the InstrumentExtension component
DerivativeSecurityList	AA	Optional	inside RelSymDerivSecGrp › InstrumentExtension
SecurityDefinition	d	Optional	inside the InstrumentExtension component
SecurityDefinitionRequest	c	Optional	inside the InstrumentExtension component
SecurityList	y	Optional	inside SecListGrp › InstrumentExtension
SecurityListRequest	x	Optional	inside the InstrumentExtension component
SecurityStatus	f	Optional	inside the InstrumentExtension component
SecurityStatusRequest	e	Optional	inside the InstrumentExtension component
TradeCaptureReportRequest	AD	Optional	inside the InstrumentExtension 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 869 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[869];field?.name;   // "PctAtRisk"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-fix44

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