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I'm on the buyside, but we have a lot of brokers who support this for us with 4.2 and lower. Aggregating all of the executions for one or more orders into a single message (the "block trade") which is then split out amongst one or more accounts (the "shapes" or "splits") is by definition what the Allocation message represents. > Hello > > A brief query to those working on the sell side, is there wide support > for the concept of FIX4.2 Allocation messages from the buyside, which > effectively aggregate all executions received from a single trade into a > single message. > > From a brief scan of the site this looks like it may be officially > handled only in later versions of the protocol. > > Regards Jim [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
