gb is a real-time, command-line grid trading bot written in C99. It adheres to the Suckless philosophy: simple, modular, and minimal. The bot reads price data from standard input and writes order fills and status updates to standard output. All state is in-memory, and configuration is passed via command-line flags. No sockets, no threads, no dependencies.
- Single static binary
- No external libraries or socket connections
- Fully pipeable: integrates with Unix tools or other processes
- Designed for real-time use
Run:
./gb [options]
Price ticks are fed line-by-line through standard input, and order events are emitted through standard output.
For full command-line options and usage details, see:
man gb
Example:
$ echo -e "99\n100\n101" | ./gb -c 100 -l 3 -s 1 -q 0.5
Output:
TICK 1 @ 99.00
Filled BUY 99.00 x 0.50
TICK 2 @ 100.00
TICK 3 @ 101.00
Filled SELL 101.00 x 0.50
make clean && make
Produces the ./gb binary. Requires only a POSIX-compatible C compiler (e.g., cc or clang).
Backtesting is not part of this binary and should be done externally (e.g., via Python with backtesting.py).
- No bloat. All logic lives in C99 source files under 500 lines.
- No runtime configuration files or databases.
- No sockets, threads, JSON, XML, or other overhead.
- Everything via
stdin/stdout.