Retail Price Improvement Message Fields (BYX and EDGX Only)

The Retail Price Improvement message is only available on the BYX and EDGX Exchanges. This message is a Retail Liquidity Indicator (RLI) that includes symbol and side, but not price and size. An RLI will be disseminated when there is a Retail Price Improving (RPI) order present for a symbol on the 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.

Cboe will disseminate a Retail Price Improvement message when the resting RPI order is priced better than the NBBO.

The Retail Price Improvement message has the following format:

Table 1. Retail Price Improvement
Field NameOffsetLengthType/(Value)Description
Length01BinaryLength of this message including this field
Message Type110x98 Retail Price Improvement message
Time offset24Time OffsetNanosecond offset from last unit timestamp
Symbol68Printable ASCIISymbol right padded with spaces.
Retail Price Improvement141Alpha
  • B=Buy Side RPI
  • S=Sell Side RPI
  • A=Buy & Sell RPI
  • N=No RPI
Total Length = 15 bytes
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