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Price class: format converters

After you get a Price object that is both valid and tradable, you can use the following methods to extract the price in different formats.

Desired format Price class method
Points ToDecimal()
Ticks ToTicks()
TT Display ToString()
Full price (in contract currency) ToPrimaryCurrency()
Full price (in trader's currency) ToNativeCurrency()
Full price (in specific currency) ToCurrency()

For example, assume that the variable inst represents a valid InstrumentDetails instance for the Eurex FGBL-Dec20 futures contract. You could use these methods as follows to display the price in the various formats:

Price p = Price.FromString(inst,"114.73");
Console.WriteLine("Points: " + p.ToDouble() + ", Ticks: " + p.ToTicks() +
  ", TT Display: " + p.ToString() + ", Full Price: " + p.ToPrimaryCurrency());

The result of this code snippet would be:

Points: 114.73, TT Display: 114.73, Full Price: 114730.00
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