Futures trading automation
You have a futures strategy. We build the software that runs it, across index, commodity, currency and rate contracts, and we handle rollover and margin properly so the system stays honest over years of data. You keep the strategy. We build the engine.
What we build for futures
A futures system is more than a signal on a chart. The contracts expire and roll, they are leveraged, and every venue keeps its own rules. We build all of that to your specification:
- Rollover and continuous series. Rolling to the next contract on your rule and date, and building continuous and back-adjusted history for research.
- Margin and sizing. Position sizing, margin and exposure limits enforced in code, per account, before an order goes out.
- Tick and bar data. Clean intraday and daily data, handled so gaps, sessions and settlement prices do not corrupt a backtest or a live signal.
- Many venues, one system. Index, commodity, currency and rate contracts across several exchanges, kept straight by one engine.
Why futures are their own engineering problem
Futures carry problems that spot markets never see, and they are where most of the real work goes:
- Rollover, done right. A naive roll invents price jumps that never happened and quietly ruins a backtest. Getting continuous contracts right is a job in itself.
- Leverage. A small move is a large move on margin, so risk has to be checked before the order, not discovered after.
- Sessions and settlement. Each contract keeps its own hours, breaks and settlement times that naive code gets wrong.
Commodity futures have their own page, with the exchanges and instruments spelled out. See commodities trading automation for energy, metals and grains, and index options automation for the index side. Rollover is subtle enough to deserve its own write-up: see automating futures contract continuity.
You bring the strategy. We build the system.
We are engineers, not advisers. We do not supply futures strategies, we do not give trading calls, and we make no claim about what any strategy will earn. Futures are leveraged, and leverage works against you as easily as for you, so the risk and every decision stay with you. What we do is turn the logic you already have into software that runs it correctly, and stops the moment you tell it to. Most of this work lives inside our custom trading software and broker API integration.
Common questions
- How do you handle contract rollover and continuous contracts?
- Rollover is the part that quietly breaks naive futures systems. We roll from one contract to the next on your chosen rule and date, and build continuous and back-adjusted series for research without inventing prices that never traded, so your history and your live trading stay consistent.
- Which futures exchanges and instruments do you cover?
- Index, commodity, currency and interest-rate futures across venues like CME and Globex, Eurex and ICE, plus NSE and MCX in India. If your broker offers an API for the contract, we can build for it.
- Do you supply the futures strategy or signals?
- No. You bring the strategy. We build the software that runs it. We do not give trading calls and we make no claim about returns. Futures are leveraged and carry real risk, which stays with you.