Retail Price Improvement (RPI) Message Fields

The Retail Price Improvement (RPI) message is a retail liquidity indicator that includes symbol and side, but not price and size. An RPI message will be disseminated when there is a retail price improving order present for a symbol on any Cboe Exchange order book OR to indicate a RPI order is no longer available. RPI orders offer price improvement in increments of $.001 to Retail Member Organizations.

Table 1. RPI
FieldOffsetLengthValue/TypeDescription
Length01BinaryLength of this message including this field.
Message Type110xA8 RPI message
Timestamp28Binary
  • Timestamp of the matching engine RPI message emitted by the specified Market Center.
  • Encoded as the number of nanoseconds since midnight (effective 11/02/26, since epoch).
Symbol108AlphanumericSymbol right padded with spaces.
Market Center181Alphanumeric
  • Y=BYX
  • Z=BZX
  • A=EDGA
  • X=EDGX
Retail PriceImprovement191Alphanumeric
  • B=Buy Side RPI
  • S=Sell Side RPI
  • A=Buy & Sell RPI
  • N=No RPI
Total Length = 20 bytes
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