nautilus-live

Live system node for NautilusTrader.

The nautilus-live crate provides high-level abstractions and infrastructure for running live trading systems, including data streaming, execution management, and system lifecycle handling. It builds on top of the system kernel to provide simplified interfaces for live deployment:

• LiveNode High-level abstraction for live system nodes.
• LiveNodeConfig Configuration for live node deployment.
• AsyncRunner for managing system real-time data flow.

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:

• ffi: Enables the C foreign function interface (FFI) from cbindgen.
• streaming: Enables persistence dependency for streaming configuration.
• python: Enables Python bindings from PyO3 (auto-enables streaming).
• defi: Enables DeFi (Decentralized Finance) support.
• 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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