What My Project Does

async_rithmic is an open-source Python SDK that brings fully asynchronous access to the Rithmic API (a popular low-latency gateway for futures market data and trading).

With async_rithmic, you can:

Place, modify, and cancel orders in a modern, non-blocking way. Easily subscribe to market data and build real-time event-driven trading systems. Retrieve historical market data

Links

GitHub Project link Documentation link

Why I Built It

The only other Python wrapper I’m aware of is outdated, unmaintained and has a flawed architecture. I needed something:

Fully async (for use with asyncio and fast, concurrent pipelines) Open source, with a clean, idiomatic API Easy to use in an event-driven trading system

After building several bots and backtesting platforms, I decided to open-source my own implementation to help others save time and avoid re-inventing the wheel.

Target audience

Python developers working with low-latency, event-driven trading or market data pipelines Quantitative researchers and algo traders who want fast access to Rithmic feeds for futures trading Anyone building their own backtesting or trading framework with a focus on modern async patterns