Tag 38
OrderQty
Abbreviation:
Description
Number of shares ordered. This represents the number of shares for equities or based on normal convention the number of contracts for options, futures, convertible bonds, etc.
(Prior to FIX 4.2 this field was of type int)
Wire Format & Usage Example
Single field (key=value)
38=1000
In a FIX message (ExecutionReport)
8=FIX.4.4 | 9=... | 35=8 | 49=SENDER | 56=TARGET | 34=1 | 52=20240101-09:30:00.000 | … | 38=1000 | … | 10=...
Fields are delimited by SOH (ASCII 0x01), shown here as " | ". The highlighted field 38=1000 is this field's position in the message.