FTX Spot, Futures, and Options API Conventions
Summary
The document summarizes how to work with FTX’s spot, futures, and options interfaces. It advises keeping spot and futures as separate exchange objects even though they use a common API key. It describes futures as USD-denominated and settled, with deposited stablecoins converted to USD account balance, and notes that contract symbols distinguish perpetual, quarterly, and next-quarter products. Contract sizes vary by market.
For options, the notes give a symbol pattern encoding the underlying asset, expiry, strike, and put or call type. They also say the interface exposes current option requests and counterparty executions but lacks an endpoint for retrieving an individual order by ID; other option operations can be accessed through a general API call. This is an integration reference, not a trading strategy or performance analysis. It reflects the exchange’s interface as described in the document, so availability and behavior may have changed; verify current API documentation before relying on these details.
Key ideas
- Keep spot and futures integrations separate, though the API key is shared.
- FTX futures are described as USD-settled, with deposited stablecoin balances represented as USD.
- Futures symbols identify perpetual and dated quarterly contract types.
- Option symbols encode the underlying, expiry, strike, and put or call designation.
- The described options interface lacks individual order lookup by order ID.
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