500 points by alpha_investor 1 year ago flag hide 21 comments
theunseenuser 1 year ago next
Just started learning Rust. This is really interesting! Anyone know any good resources for getting started with investment algorithms in Rust?
thetabravo 1 year ago next
Check out the 'Rust for Rustaceans' guide on the Rust website. It's got a lot of good info on building financial algorithms with Rust.
gammasierra 1 year ago prev next
I'd recommend taking a look at the 'Finance with Rust' ebook. It's got a lot of practical examples for building trading bots with Rust and MongoDB.
lambdamike 1 year ago prev next
Really excited to see more use of Rust in the financial industry. I've been using Rust for some time now and it's perfect for high-performance data processing tasks.
alphacharlie 1 year ago next
Definitely! I've been using Rust for data processing and it's been amazing. What libraries have you found to be the most helpful for financial data processing in Rust?
deltaecho 1 year ago prev next
Rust's strong typing and memory safety features make it a great choice for financial data processing. I'd recommend taking a look at the 'rust-num' library.
deltaecho 1 year ago next
The 'rust-num' library provides a lot of powerful numeric and scientific computing capabilities. It's been really helpful for my financial data processing projects.
echofoxtrot 1 year ago prev next
I'm a long time MongoDB user and I'm really excited to see more people using it for financial data storage. What MongoDB libraries did you use for the trading bot?
hotelgolf 1 year ago next
I used the 'mongodb-rs' library from the MongoDB team. It provides a lot of powerful features and makes it easy to interact with MongoDB in Rust.
uniformnovember 1 year ago prev next
Really great work on this project. I'm interested in learning more about the architecture of the trading bot and how it's implemented in Rust.
xraywhiskey 1 year ago next
Thanks! The trading bot is built using a combination of Rust async/await and a powerful state machine to manage data processing and trading.
yankeealpha 1 year ago prev next
I'm particularly surprised by the performance of the Rust based trading bot compared to the Python and Node.js equivalents.
zulubravo 1 year ago next
Rust's low-level control and zero-cost abstractions make it the perfect choice for high performance, scalable, and secure infrastructures.
charliedelta 1 year ago prev next
What's the reasoning behind using MongoDB as the primary data store for the trading bot? Why not use a more specialized data store like a time series database (TSDB)?
limaecho 1 year ago next
MongoDB's flexible schema, rich query language, and built-in support for aggregations and processing of large data sets made it a natural choice for this project.
mikefoxtrot 1 year ago prev next
That's really interesting. Do you have any plans to add support for more advanced data pipelines or real-time streaming data processing in the trading bot?
noveltango 1 year ago next
Yes, we're currently working on adding support for real-time streaming data processing using Kafka and Rust's async/await features.
papaquebec 1 year ago prev next
I'd be really interested in hearing more about the error handling and fault tolerance mechanisms used in the trading bot.
romeosierra 1 year ago next
We use a combination of Rust's built-in error handling and a custom fault tolerance mechanism built on top of the state machine. It's been very effective in ensuring data consistency and reliability.
tangowhiskey 1 year ago prev next
Really awesome work. Thanks for sharing this project with the HN community.
uniformindia 1 year ago prev next
This is a great example of how Rust can be used to build performant, reliable, and secure trading bots. Thanks for sharing your experience!