nautilus-indicators
Technical analysis indicators for NautilusTrader.
The nautilus-indicators crate provides a collection of technical analysis indicators
for quantitative trading and market research. This includes a wide variety of indicators
organized by category, with a unified trait-based architecture for consistent usage:
- Moving averages: SMA, EMA, DEMA, HMA, WMA, VWAP, adaptive averages, and linear regression.
- Momentum indicators: RSI, MACD, Aroon, Bollinger Bands, CCI, Stochastics, and rate of change.
- Volatility indicators: ATR, Donchian Channels, Keltner Channels, and volatility ratios.
- Ratio analysis: Efficiency ratios and spread analysis for relative performance.
- Order book indicators: Book imbalance ratio for analyzing market microstructure.
- Common indicator trait: Unified interface supporting bars, quotes, trades, and order book data.
All indicators are designed for high-performance real-time processing with bounded memory usage and efficient circular buffer implementations. The crate supports both Rust-native usage and Python integration for strategy development and backtesting.
NautilusTrader
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.
Feature flags
This crate provides feature flags to control source code inclusion during compilation:
python: Enables Python bindings from PyO3.extension-module: Builds as a Python extension module.
Documentation
See the docs for more detailed usage.
License
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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