Converting OKX Swap Contract Counts to Coin Amounts

Summary

The document describes how to convert between coin quantities and contract counts for OKX swap instruments. It uses the exchange’s public contract conversion endpoint, supplying an instrument identifier, conversion price, quantity, and—when converting contracts to coin—a direction parameter. The identifier is formed from the trading pair in the exchange’s expected format with a swap suffix. The example obtains the current pair and price, then requests both conversion directions.

The returned quantity represents the contract-to-coin or coin-to-contract conversion before leverage is applied. The note illustrates that a trader seeking comparable exposure or margin across venues must account for leverage separately. It is a narrow implementation reference rather than a trading strategy: it gives no performance evidence, risk analysis, or handling guidance for request failures, rounding, contract specifications, or changing prices. Results depend on the instrument and conversion price supplied.

Key ideas

• Contract and coin quantities can be converted using OKX’s public swap conversion service.
• The conversion requires the instrument identifier, price, quantity, and conversion direction.
• The instrument identifier must follow the exchange’s swap naming format.
• The returned amount does not include leverage, which must be handled separately when comparing exposure.
• Conversion results depend on instrument specifications and the chosen price.

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