Identifiers
class AccountId
Bases: Identifier
AccountId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid account ID.
Must be correctly formatted with two valid strings either side of a hyphen. It is expected an account ID is the name of the issuer with an account number separated by a hyphen.
Example: “IB-D02851908”.
- Parameters: value (str) – The account ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string containing a hyphen.
WARNING
The issuer and number ID combination must be unique at the firm level.
get_id(self) → unicode
Return the account ID without issuer name.
- Return type: str
get_issuer(self) → unicode
Return the account issuer for this ID.
- Return type: str
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class ClientId
Bases: Identifier
ClientId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a system client ID.
- Parameters: value (str) – The client ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string.
WARNING
The ID value must be unique at the trader level.
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class ClientOrderId
Bases: Identifier
ClientOrderId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid client order ID (assigned by the Nautilus system).
- Parameters: value (str) – The client order ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string.
WARNING
The ID value must be unique at the firm level.
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class ComponentId
Bases: Identifier
ComponentId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid component ID.
- Parameters: value (str) – The component ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string.
WARNING
The ID value must be unique at the trader level.
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class ExecAlgorithmId
Bases: Identifier
ExecAlgorithmId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid execution algorithm ID.
- Parameters: value (str) – The execution algorithm ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string.
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class Identifier
Bases: object
The abstract base class for all identifiers.
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class InstrumentId
Bases: Identifier
InstrumentId(Symbol symbol, Venue venue) -> None
Represents a valid instrument ID.
The symbol and venue combination should uniquely identify the instrument.
- Parameters:
static from_str(unicode value: str) → InstrumentId
Return an instrument ID parsed from the given string value. Must be correctly formatted including symbol and venue components either side of a single period.
Examples: ‘AUD/USD.IDEALPRO’, ‘BTCUSDT.BINANCE’
- Parameters: value (str) – The instrument ID string value to parse.
- Return type: InstrumentId
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid instrument ID string.
is_synthetic(self) → bool
Return whether the instrument ID is a synthetic instrument (with venue of ‘SYNTH’).
- Return type: bool
symbol
Symbol
Returns the instrument ticker symbol.
- Return type: Symbol
- Type: InstrumentId.symbol
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
venue
Venue
Returns the instrument trading venue.
- Return type: Venue
- Type: InstrumentId.venue
class OrderListId
Bases: Identifier
OrderListId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid order list ID (assigned by the Nautilus system).
- Parameters: value (str) – The order list ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string.
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class PositionId
Bases: Identifier
PositionId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid position ID.
- Parameters: value (str) – The position ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string containing a hyphen.
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class StrategyId
Bases: Identifier
StrategyId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid strategy ID.
Must be correctly formatted with two valid strings either side of a hyphen. It is expected a strategy ID is the class name of the strategy, with an order ID tag number separated by a hyphen.
Example: “EMACross-001”.
The reason for the numerical component of the ID is so that order and position IDs do not collide with those from another strategy within the node instance.
- Parameters: value (str) – The strategy ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string containing a hyphen.
WARNING
The name and tag combination must be unique at the trader level.
get_tag(self) → unicode
Return the order ID tag value for this ID.
- Return type: str
is_external(self) → bool
If the strategy ID is the global ‘external’ strategy. This represents the strategy for all orders interacting with this instance of the system which did not originate from any strategy being managed by the system.
- Return type: bool
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class Symbol
Bases: Identifier
Symbol(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid ticker symbol ID for a tradable instrument.
- Parameters: value (str) – The ticker symbol ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string.
WARNING
The ID value must be unique for a trading venue.
is_composite(self) → bool
Returns true if the symbol string contains a period (‘.’).
- Return type: str
root(self) → unicode
Return the symbol root.
The symbol root is the substring that appears before the first period (‘.’) in the full symbol string. It typically represents the underlying asset for futures and options contracts. If no period is found, the entire symbol string is considered the root.
- Return type: str
topic(self) → unicode
Return the symbol topic.
The symbol topic is the root symbol with a wildcard ‘*’ appended if the symbol has a root, otherwise returns the full symbol string.
- Return type: str
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class TradeId
Bases: Identifier
TradeId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid trade match ID (assigned by a trading venue).
Maximum length is 36 characters. Can correspond to the TradeID <1003> field of the FIX protocol.
The unique ID assigned to the trade entity once it is received or matched by the exchange or central counterparty.
- Parameters: value (str) – The trade match ID value.
- Raises:
- ValueError – If value is not a valid string.
- ValueError – If value length exceeds maximum 36 characters.
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class TraderId
Bases: Identifier
TraderId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid trader ID.
Must be correctly formatted with two valid strings either side of a hyphen. It is expected a trader ID is the abbreviated name of the trader with an order ID tag number separated by a hyphen.
Example: “TESTER-001”.
The reason for the numerical component of the ID is so that order and position IDs do not collide with those from another node instance.
- Parameters: value (str) – The trader ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string containing a hyphen.
WARNING
The name and tag combination ID value must be unique at the firm level.
get_tag(self) → unicode
Return the order ID tag value for this ID.
- Return type: str
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class Venue
Bases: Identifier
Venue(unicode name) -> None
Represents a valid trading venue ID.
- Parameters: name (str) – The venue ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If name is not a valid string.
static from_code(unicode code)
Return the venue with the given code from the built-in internal map (if found).
Currency only supports CME Globex exchange ISO 10383 MIC codes.
- Parameters: code (str) – The code of the venue.
- Return type:
Venue or
None
is_synthetic(self) → bool
Return whether the venue is synthetic (‘SYNTH’).
- Return type: bool
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value
class VenueOrderId
Bases: Identifier
VenueOrderId(unicode value) -> None
Represents a valid venue order ID (assigned by a trading venue).
- Parameters: value (str) – The venue assigned order ID value.
- Raises: ValueError – If value is not a valid string.
value
str
Return the identifier (ID) value.
- Return type: str
- Type: Identifier.value