Reading Best Bid, Best Ask, and Futures Price Limits from a Tick

Summary

A forum user asks how to obtain a futures contract’s best bid, best ask, upper price limit, and lower price limit. The response points to the corresponding fields on the tick data object: first-level bid and ask prices, plus limit-up and limit-down values.

This is a concise API lookup rather than a broader explanation of futures market data. It provides no code context, discussion of missing or stale ticks, or details about how a particular gateway populates the fields. Users should verify that their feed has delivered a current tick before relying on these values for order logic or risk checks.

Key ideas

• The tick object exposes first-level bid and ask prices.
• The same tick data includes upper and lower price limits.
• The forum answer gives field names but no implementation details.
• Consumers should account for whether the tick data is current and populated.

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