I created an open-source

I created an open-source automated trading platform. Here’s how much it’s improved in a year.

One year ago, I wrote about my open-source algorithmic trading platform, NextTrade. I demonstrate why NextTrade is the most-advanced open-source trading platform on GitHub — from its beautiful modern UI to the powerful optimization engine that promised to evolve your trading strategies into money-making algorithms. NextTrade had everything — except scalability and practical utility.

NextTrade had two drawbacks that made it impossible to scale as a service. Despite only serving a single user, NextTrade struggled under computationally demanding tasks. Backtests, which should have been almost instantaneous, were frustratingly slow. Genetic optimizations not only took hours but also crippled the CPU.

Moreover, the platform’s architecture limited the complexity of trading strategies one could implement. While basic strategies were manageable, more nuanced approaches demanded increasingly cumbersome code modifications, rendering NextTrade ineffective for advanced trading scenarios.

Confronted with these shortcomings, I made the decision to open-source NextTrade. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but it also allowed me to return to the drawing board with a treasure trove of invaluable lessons. These lessons led to the birth of a far more superior trading platform — NexusTrade.

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