Designing Data Flow in an Elixir Trading System
An automated trading system makes hundreds of decisions a day on data it didn't generate. Ticks arrive from a broker. Orders go to
architecture
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Designing a Broker-Agnostic API Layer in Elixir
Part of Broker Architecture The previous post evaluated the four brokers in this system. This post is about what makes them coexist — the behaviors that
Why I Fired My Broker (and What I Replaced Them With)
Part of the IBKR Saga The question wasn't hard to answer. A stop order is the most basic risk management primitive in trading
The Supervision Tree That Watches the Market While You Sleep
This system has been trading real capital for about eight months. It's been running on a DigitalOcean droplet, unattended, for about five of