If you’re running your trading algorithms on Linux the best way to get them to start on bootup is to use a service called systemd. Here are the steps on setting that up.

Go to:

/etc/systemd/system

Then create a new service as root:

sudo nano trading_algo_23.service

Here is a sample of what the file should look like. You can find your account name by using the command whoami in linux

[Unit]
Description=This algo is designed to hedge...



User=your username
WorkingDirectory=/directory/of/algo
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3  /directory/of/algo/algo_23.py
Restart=always



[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now reload systems

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Enable the service

sudo systemctl enable

Start your script:

sudo systemctl start trading_algo_23.service

Check the status:

sudo systemctl status trading_algo_23.service