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NYSE is apparently using a user-defined field (9487 RoutingInstruction) with a 
value of "CO". I do not see the routing element of an order that is valid for 
the imbalance of the closing auction only but as they use a UDF, it is outside 
of the standard anyway.

NYSE permits only 0=Day for 59 TimeInForce of closing offset orders. I would 
argue that 7=At the Close is a better value. I believe NYSE currently uses 
TimeInForce=2=At the Opening for the opening auction and TimeInForce=0=Day + 
OrdType (40) for the closing auction with OrdType values 5=Market on Close and 
A=On Close which are no longer used. The difference in approach for opening and 
closing auctions does not seem intuitive and is only supported in older FIX 
versions. It was deprecated with FIX 4.3 in Aug 2001.

In my view, the standard approach to orders only allowed to match the opposite 
side of the imbalance during the closing auction would be to use 
TimeInForce=7=At the Close together with tag 18 ExecInst=i=Imbalance only. This 
was added to FIX 5.0 and is formally not part of FIX 4.2 used by NYSE. However, 
it is still better to use a standard message/field/value from a higher FIX 
version than to go for a user-defined field.

> i think i found the answer i was looking for. see the attached link -
> http://www.nyse.com/pdfs/ClosingOffsetOrder_20091116.pdf
> > Could you post a short description of it? Thanks.
> >
> > > Has there been any industry consensus as to what fix tags will be
> > > used to support this new NYSE Closing offset order type?


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