Rust for Stock Trading: Building High-Performance Algorithmic Systems and Backtesting Engines

By Hayden Van Der Post

Reactive Publishing

Rust for Stock Trading is a practical guide to building fast, reliable, and high-performance algorithmic trading systems using the Rust programming language.

Discover how to leverage Rust's speed, memory safety, and concurrency features to develop robust financial applications that can handle real-time market data, backtest trading strategies efficiently, and execute complex algorithms with confidence.

This book walks you through:
- Setting up a complete Rust-based trading environment
- Fetching and processing live and historical market data
- Implementing backtesting engines with accurate performance metrics
- Designing modular, high-performance algorithmic trading systems
- Managing risk, order execution, and portfolio logic safely and efficiently

Whether you are a developer looking to enter the world of quantitative finance or a trader seeking to modernize your technical stack, Rust for Stock Trading provides clear explanations, practical code examples, and battle-tested patterns used in professional financial systems.

No prior Rust experience is required, the book gradually builds your knowledge from core language concepts to advanced trading system architecture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H2J22SMK
• ISBN13: 9798197948335
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"