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Instrument States

Instruments can be in different states that determine their availability for trading and what operations are allowed:

Instrument Hierarchy

Instrument

Any tradeable spot pair or derivative is an Instrument. Periodically, Instrument Definition Messages are disseminated on the snapshot multicast channels of the SBE Market Data Feed. Instrument definitions can change during the lifetime of the instruments. Tick sizes, states and underlying instruments can all change intra-day.

Index

Each Instrument is linked to an Index. The Index is the top-level underlying used for delivery price calculation, funding rates and circuit breakers. The Indices are disseminated in the SBE Market Data Feed in the Index Definition Message. Indices are linked to Instruments via the indexId field in the Instrument Definition Message.

Underlying

Each instrument also has an immediate underlying. For options, this will be the associated tradeable or synthetic futures. For futures, this will be the index. The Underlying visibile in the Instrument Definition Message as a text field in the Instrument Definition message.