LegStrikeCurrency (FIX tag 942)

At a glance

Tag

942

Name

LegStrikeCurrency

Datatype

Currency (String)

Dialects

FIX 4.4

Messages

50

What the specification says

Currency in which the strike price of an instrument leg of a multileg instrument is denominated

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

A real message using tag 942

Where tag 942 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.

Wire format

A three-letter ISO 4217 code. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.

Read tag 942 in TypeScript

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[942];field?.name;   // "LegStrikeCurrency"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a string

Other Currency fields

• 941UnderlyingStrikeCurrency
• 947StrikeCurrency
• 918AgreementCurrency
• 767AllowableOneSidednessCurr
• 736AllocSettlCurrency
• 676LegBenchmarkCurveCurrency
• 675LegSettlCurrency
• 556LegCurrency
• 521ContAmtCurr
• 479CommCurrency
• 478CashDistribCurr
• 318UnderlyingCurrency
• 220BenchmarkCurveCurrency
• 138MiscFeeCurr
• 120SettlCurrency
• 15Currency