FINRA CAT Cheat Sheets
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Lifecycle Cheat Sheets
New Order Lifecycle [DOWNLOAD]
Illustrates the reporting requirements of a newly placed or received order
Message Cheat Sheets
MEOR | Equity Order Route | [DOWLOAD]
Reported when an Industry Member routes an order to another broker-dealer, exchange or ATS.
MLNO | Multi-Leg New Order | [DOWNLOAD]
Event used to report new Multi-Leg option orders to CAT.
Data Cheat Sheets
LegDetails | Leg Details | [DOWNLOAD]
Captures the leg level details for each leg associated with a Multi-Leg order event.
Data Types
- Boolean => A value with two choices: true or false. In CSV representation, the value must equal true or false (no quotation marks). In JSON representation, if the field is not present, the value is considered false. Boolean values are NOT case sensitive.
- Choice => A text field with an explicit list of acceptable values. Appendix G in the FINRA tech spec lists the acceptable values for each Choice field
- Leg Details => This field is in the format of Leg Details, a compound data type that consists of a list of fields (see Section 2.5 Data Types). If there are more legDetails than can be represented in one event, any additional legDetails must be populated in separate Multi-Leg Order Supplement events.