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Re: How to communicate reason for TRADE_CANCEL
Hanno Klein / Deutsche Börse Systems <> 20 May 2009 4:13PM ET > > The standard option is always to use the Text (58) tag. This will work
> > if you do not need to convey other information in the context of a
> > trade cancel.
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> Sure, but we want to have a more type safe way of doing this handling
> the canceled trades is an automated process.
>
> > Adding one "locally" only works for internal tags >10000, otherwise it
> > needs to be one between 5000 and 9999 registered on the FPL website. I
> > guess what you are looking for should be called TradeCxlReason and
> > have a list of pre-defined values and Reserved100Plus datatype for user-
> > defined values. The closest one I found is 6042 CxlReason which should
> > apply for orders, quotes and trades (executions). I suggest to use
> > that tag if you do not want to submit a gap analysis for an extension
> > of the FIX standard.
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> Using 6042 seems just fine to me. Is there any other information apart
> from the tag name and number in the list on the web site, like what
> values are valid?
Not that I am aware of. It would be in the field description. Apparently it was introduced as part of a repeating group to cancel rebills but you would use it as a standalone field. I still think it is better to re-use that field and not introduce a new user-defined field.
Re: How to communicate reason for TRADE_CANCEL Hanno Klein / Deutsche Börse Systems 20 May 2009 4:13PM ET |