Trade Architect Exchange (AX) with NautilusTrader

Regulated venue

Operated by Architect Bermuda Ltd and licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, AX clears perpetual contracts centrally rather than matching them on-chain.

Traded 23/7

Markets run seven days a week, pausing one hour daily for settlement and risk checks. Equities, metals, and rates keep trading through nights and weekends, when their underlying markets are closed.

Perpetual, so no roll

Perpetuals never expire, so there is no quarterly roll and no calendar spread to manage. A funding rate keeps each perpetual aligned with the underlying index.

Data and execution

One adapter covers both market data and order execution, with order, fill, and position reconciliation against the venue.

Bearer token sessions

An API key and secret exchange for a session token that authenticates every REST and WebSocket request, carried in the connection headers and reused across reconnects.

Sandbox and production

Select the environment with one config enum. Sandbox runs on simulated funds and is the default, so live trading is always a deliberate choice.

Post-only

Maker-only limit orders, rejected by the venue if they would take liquidity.

Atomic replace

Amend a resting order in one call. AX cancels the original and creates the replacement itself, returning a new venue order ID.

Market order pricing

The adapter reads the take-through price from the venue preview endpoint before submitting, turning a market order into an aggressive limit priced from the live book.

Cancel on disconnect

Have the exchange cancel every open order if the orders WebSocket drops, so a network failure cannot leave orders working unattended.

Cancel all

Pull every open order for an instrument in a single request, with the resulting cancel events generated locally.

Reconciliation

Order, fill, and position state is rebuilt from the venue on startup, with fills reconciled over the most recent seven days.