Trade Break Message Fields

The Trade Break message is sent whenever an execution on a Cboe exchange is broken. Trade breaks are rare and only affect applications that rely upon Cboe execution based data.

Table 1. Trade Break
Field Offset Length Value/Type Description
Length 0 1 Binary Length of this message including this field.
Message Type 1 1 0xAA Trade Break message
Transaction Time 2 8 Binary
  • The time the trade break occurred on the specified Market Center.
  • Encoded as the number of nanoseconds since midnight.
Symbol 10 8 Alphanumeric Symbol right padded with spaces.
Market Center 18 1 Alphanumeric
  • Market Center on which the last trade was executed:
  • B = C1
  • W = C2
  • X = EDGX
  • Z = BZX
Market Center Execution ID 19 8 Binary Market center specific execution identifier of trade to be broken.
  • Cboe Cumulative
  • Executed Volume
27 8 Binary Cumulative number of shares traded today across all applicable Cboe books.
Reserved 35 9 Reserved
Total Length = 44 bytes
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