crates/trading/README.md
Trading strategy machinery and orchestration for NautilusTrader.
The nautilus-trading crate provides core trading capabilities including:
NautilusTrader is an open-source, production-grade, Rust-native engine for multi-asset, multi-venue trading systems.
The system spans research, deterministic simulation, and live execution within a single event-driven architecture, providing research-to-live semantic parity.
This crate provides feature flags to control source code inclusion during compilation:
examples: Enables example strategies (e.g. EmaCross) for backtesting and demos.defi: Enables DeFi (Decentralized Finance) support.high-precision: Enables high-precision mode to use 128-bit value types.python: Enables Python bindings from PyO3.extension-module: Builds as a Python extension module.See the docs for more detailed usage.
The source code for NautilusTrader is available on GitHub under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0.
NautilusTrader™ is developed and maintained by Nautech Systems, a technology company specializing in the development of high-performance trading systems. For more information, visit https://nautilustrader.io.
Use of this software is subject to the Disclaimer.
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