500 points by alpha_investor 6 months ago flag hide 21 comments
theunseenuser 6 months ago next
Just started learning Rust. This is really interesting! Anyone know any good resources for getting started with investment algorithms in Rust?
thetabravo 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago next
Rust's low-level control and zero-cost abstractions make it the perfect choice for high performance, scalable, and secure infrastructures.
charliedelta 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago prev next
Really awesome work. Thanks for sharing this project with the HN community.
uniformindia 6 months 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!