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> Thank you for information. I just wanted to expand on this thought for a bit. This situation could be different in your case as you can define your own set of rules with your counterparty. This is the method that is applied to earlier FIX versions. In other words, feel free to use any custom field if the counterparty agrees to the terms. In the later versions of FIX, I have seen some institutions use fields form the 4.4+ in the FIX 4.2 layer that way both parties are still in somewhat of non-customized FIX domain. FIX in the later versions is pretty much straight forward and covers most of the rules so just think if you do use a custom tag, think about what is the business logic behind adding the custom tag; what do you gain by adding this custom tag? [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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=.
