# Futures Tick Value Calculator

> Futures Tick Value Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from filings-specs-api.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-03).

Converts a price move in ticks or points into dollar value per contract for a given futures symbol.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://filings-specs-api.onrender.com/v1/tick-value?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-03
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/futures-tick-value-calculator-d4615cbb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QlaBoCAEiTCWBJzkDOPQ6

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability futures-tick-value-calculator-d4615cbb
```

Example prompt: How much money would I make or lose per ES contract if the price moves 12 ticks?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to quickly convert a price move expressed in ticks or points into a dollar-and-cents P&L figure for a specific futures contract without manually looking up contract specs. Ideal for trading agents performing real-time risk assessment, position sizing, or profit/loss calculations across a wide range of CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, Cboe, and Eurex futures products.

## Known failure modes

- Unrecognized or unsupported futures symbol returns an error
- Missing required symbol parameter causes a 400 bad request
- Neither ticks nor points provided may return a zero or error response
- Symbol misspelling results in not-found error
- Service unavailability on Render.com cold start may cause timeout

## How this service works

Converts a price move in ticks or points into money per contract for a futures symbol.

## Output

Returns the monetary value (in dollars) per contract corresponding to the specified number of ticks or points for the requested futures symbol, based on that contract's official tick size and tick value specification.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "symbol"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "ticks": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Number of ticks"
      },
      "points": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Number of points (alternative to ticks)"
      },
      "symbol": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Futures symbol, e.g. ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, YM, RTY, CL, MCL, NG, GC, MGC, SI, HG, ZT, ZF, ZN, ZB, 6E, 6J, 6B, 6S, BTC, MBT, ZC, ZS, ZW, VX, FDAX, FDXM, FDXS, FESX, FSMI, FGBL, FGBM, FGBS"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/futures-tick-value-calculator-d4615cbb/health.json
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