NoStrategyParameters (FIX tag 957)

NumInGroupFIX 5.0 SP2group counter

NoStrategyParameters (tag 957) is a NumInGroup field defined in FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 8 message types, always optionally. Its datatype is NumInGroup, which makes it a repeating-group counter: its value is the number of entries that follow, not a quantity in its own right.

At a glance

Tag: 957
Name: NoStrategyParameters
Datatype: NumInGroup (int)
Dialects: FIX 5.0 SP2
Messages: 8

What the specification says

Indicates number of strategy parameters

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

A real message using tag 957

NewOrderSingle · FIX 5.0 SP2

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIXT.1.1
9	BodyLength	141
35	MsgType	D	NewOrderSingle
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
11	ClOrdID	ORD-10042
54	Side	1	Buy
60	TransactTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
40	OrdType	1	Market
957	NoStrategyParameters2 entries	2	repeating group
958	StrategyParameterName	EXAMPLE
958	StrategyParameterName	EXAMPLE
10	CheckSum	054

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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 957 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
CrossOrderCancelReplaceRequest	t	Optional	inside the StrategyParametersGrp component
ExecutionReport	8	Optional	inside the StrategyParametersGrp component
MultilegOrderCancelReplace	AC	Optional	inside the StrategyParametersGrp component
NewOrderCross	s	Optional	inside the StrategyParametersGrp component
NewOrderList	E	Optional	inside ListOrdGrp › StrategyParametersGrp
NewOrderMultileg	AB	Optional	inside the StrategyParametersGrp component
NewOrderSingle	D	Optional	inside the StrategyParametersGrp component
OrderCancelReplaceRequest	G	Optional	inside the StrategyParametersGrp component

Wire format

The number of entries in the repeating group that follows. The next field on the wire is the group's delimiter tag. @boarteam/fix parses the value as a number and reports parse/invalid-int when it does not lex as one; the raw string is kept either way.

Read tag 957 in TypeScript

decode.tsts

import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix50sp2";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);// NoStrategyParameters is a group counter, so the entries live on message.groups —// NOT on message.fields. message.fields[957] is undefined.const entries = message.groups[957] ?? [];for (const entry of entries) {  // entry.fields is keyed by tag; entry.groups holds nested groups}

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