Re: [Quickfix-developers] ClOrdID protocol??

[Joerg T. <Joe...@ma...>]

Jo Janssens wrote:
> This is an issue I have been thinking about as well - I am planning to
> use a clordid that is 16 characters. Does anyone know of a destination
> that would not support an id of at least this length?? Presently, we
> route to NYSE, various nasdaq ecn's, and all 5 options exchanges.

I can confirm that the Bank_Internal_Reference field of the Swiss 
Exchange (http://www.swx.com) and the virt-X (http://www.virt-x.com)
is 16 chars long. This field is passed through from the order to the
matching trades so that it may be taken as some sort of ClOrdID field.

Just if anybody cares...

Jo"rg

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