Retrieving Binance Futures Tick Size and Quantity Step

Summary

This brief code example shows how to query Binance Futures exchange metadata for a trading pair and extract its minimum price increment and minimum order quantity increment. It requests the exchange information endpoint, finds the matching symbol, and returns the tick size and step size as strings. These values can help a trading system format orders to the market’s allowed precision and avoid rejected orders.

The example uses ETHUSDT and includes a request timeout, but offers no test results or handling for failed requests, missing symbols, changed filter ordering, or other exchange constraints such as minimum notional. The code assumes the first two filters correspond to price tick size and quantity step size, so a robust implementation should identify filters by type and validate the response before placing orders. It is an exchange integration utility rather than a trading signal or strategy.

Key ideas

• The example retrieves Binance Futures exchange metadata for a requested symbol.
• It extracts the price tick size and quantity step size from the symbol’s filters.
• Order systems can use these increments to align prices and quantities with exchange precision rules.
• The example assumes a particular filter order and does not show response validation or error handling.

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