API vs Platform Trading with Rithmic: A Practical Path from Retail to Programmatic (and HFT-Ready)
Tue, Oct 28
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Unlock a clear, pragmatic roadmap for building futures strategies on Rithmic—without locking yourself into a trading platform. This webinar walks you from a retail API setup to an institutional-ready codebase, covering Python tooling, market data, analytics, execution, risk controls, etc.
Time & Location
Oct 28, 2025, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
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Guests
About the event
oin us for a deep-dive, practitioner-led session on how to design, test, and deploy futures strategies using the Rithmic API. We’ll compare platform-based trading to programmatic approaches, then outline a step-by-step workflow that scales from a home setup to low-latency environments—without rewriting your code. You’ll learn where Rithmic fits, how fees and brokers/FCMs interact, and how to build a robust Python analytics and execution stack that’s ready for live trading.
What You’ll Learn
When to choose APIs over platforms
Platform limitations for systematic traders
CQG vs Rithmic: affordability, reliability, and migration
Rithmic API landscape