The Request For Positions message is used by the owner of a position to request a Position Report from the holder of the position, usually the central counter party or clearing organization. The request can be made at several levels of granularity.

Added in protocol FIX.4.4

See in: FIX.4.4, FIX.5.0, FIX.5.0SP1, FIX.5.0SP2.

Field or Component Name Description Is Required Added Is Deprecated
Block StandardHeader MsgType = AN Y FIX.4.4
710 PosReqID Unique identifier for the Request for Positions as assigned by the submitter Y FIX.4.4
724 PosReqType Y FIX.4.4
573 MatchStatus FIX.4.4
263 SubscriptionRequestType Used to subscribe / unsubscribe for trade capture reports
If the field is absent, the value 0 will be the default
FIX.4.4
120 SettlCurrency FIX.4.4
BlockRepeating Parties Position Account Y FIX.4.4
1 Account FIX.4.4
660 AcctIDSource FIX.4.4
581 AccountType Type of account associated with the order (Origin) FIX.4.4
Block Instrument FIX.4.4
15 Currency FIX.4.4
BlockRepeating InstrmtLegGrp Specifies the number of legs that make up the Security FIX.4.4
BlockRepeating UndInstrmtGrp Specifies the number of underlying legs that make up the Security FIX.4.4
715 ClearingBusinessDate The Clearing Business Date referred to by this request Y FIX.4.4
64 SettlDate FIX.5.0SP2 (162)
716 SettlSessID FIX.4.4
717 SettlSessSubID FIX.4.4
ImplicitBlockRepeating TrdgSesGrp Specifies the number of repeating TradingSessionIDs FIX.4.4
60 TransactTime Time this order request was initiated/released by the trader, trading system, or intermediary. Y FIX.4.4
725 ResponseTransportType Ability to specify whether the response to the request should be delivered inband or via pre-arranged out-of-band transport. FIX.4.4
726 ResponseDestination URI destination name. Used if ResponseTransportType is out-of-band. FIX.4.4
58 Text FIX.4.4
354 EncodedTextLen Must be set if EncodedText (355) field is specified and must immediately precede it. FIX.4.4
355 EncodedText Encoded (non-ASCII characters) representation of the Text (58) field in the encoded format specified via the MessageEncoding (347) field. FIX.4.4
Block StandardTrailer Y FIX.4.4