SmartQuant Discussion

I noticed that strategy events such as OnBar(), OnTrade() and order events OnNewOrder(), OnOrderStatusChanged() get triggered in different threads.
For some reason, I see events for one symbol not even on the same thread but on two threads.

My strategy uses multiple symbols and I need to keep a "global" object where I store some parameters. These parameters are used for sorting which orders to execute.

Can someone mention if OnTrade() events are called asynchronously and we need our own locking? And if these are synchronized, why are they on separate threads?

If they are asynchronous - then putting a construct similar to the following should be fine?


Reason I am asking - I am trying to see if this can relate to the IQFeed getting out of memory once every few weeks.
I am trying to see where potentially a deadlock may occur.

Thanks

Hi,

are you talking about simulation mode or live trading? There is one (data simulator) thread in the simualtor mode. A number of threads in the live trading mode depends on the data and execution provider (broker API and OQ plugin) design.

Regards,
Anton

It's a combined question. When I run simulations, I end up commenting out all lock() statements to make sure code runs faster.
However, I use that primarily with a reason of synchronizing code in real-time.

Thanks.

Hi,

In Paper and Live modes, OnTrade events are almost always executed in different thread from OnBar and 'order' events. But, all OnTrade callbacks are executed in the same thread.

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