Fractional Trade Message Fields
Fractional Trade messages are sent when an order is executed in whole or in part on a Cboe exchange. The last-sale eligible status (Flags field Bit 1) is derived based on four criteria:
- The Session Indicator (see Cboe Market Status message) must be in the regular session.
- The Last Quantity must be at least one round lot.
- The Market Status (see Cboe Market Status message) for the executing exchange must be Normal.
- The Transaction Time of the event must be within 10 seconds of the current time.
Table 1. Fractional Trade Field Offset Length Value/Type Description Length 0 1 Binary Length of this message including this field. Message Type 1 1 0xE8 Fractional Trade message Transaction Time 2 8 Binary - The time the trade occurred on the specified Market Center.
- Encoded as the number of nanoseconds since midnight (effective 11/02/26, since epoch).
Symbol 10 8 Alphanumeric Symbol right padded with spaces. Market Center 18 1 Alphanumeric - Market Center on which the last trade was executed:
- Y=BYX
- Z=BZX
- A=EDGA
- X=EDGX
Market Center Execution ID 19 8 Binary - Market center specific execution identifier of this Execution.
- Execution ID is also referenced in the Trade Break message.
Last Price 27 8 Binary 8.4 Price Last trade price. Last Quantity 35 8 Binary Last trade quantity. Cboe CumulativeExecuted Volume 43 8 Binary Cumulative number of shares traded today across all applicable books. National Cumulative Volume 51 8 Binary 12.6 Cumulative number of shares traded today as reported to the CTA and UTP SIPs. Flags 59 1 Bit Field - Bit 0:National Volume Status
- 0:National volume data is complete.
- 1:National volume data may not be complete due to an unrecoverable gap on the incoming feed.
- Bit 1:Last-Sale Eligible
- 0:Trade is not last-sale eligible
- 1:Trade is last-sale eligible
- Bit 2-7:Reserved
Total Length = 60 bytes





