This trading bot is fashioned after a bot created in the tutorial that can be found here: https://www.udemy.com/course/cryptocurrency-trading-bot-with-user-interface-in-python/.
The bot in this repository has no tkinter components and only connects to coinbase. I wanted to eliminate the tkinter GUI in order to better understanding the data flows from the websocket feeds, other API calls, and parsing the trades. Also, as a US citizen I cannot legally interact with the Binance and Bitmex futures contracts. Also be aware that Coinbase has no testnet and any trades placed with this application use real US dollars and cryptocurrency.
Without a GUI, you can think of the root_component and the main python files as containing staging areas where you will want to input trade setup and execution. There are short, commented out instructions along with examples of how to call the functions necessary to execute trades.
In the future I plan to:
- Add more trading strategies than the two strategies created in the tutorial linked above
- Create a method for saving data in the event of the program crashing
- Improve parsing of data from the websocket feeds
- Create a browser GUI
Instructions:
- Fork the repository
- Open the application in your IDE
- If placing simple limit orders do this in main.py, see commented instructions
- If setting up strategies do this in root_component.py, see commented instructions/examples
- If executing a particular strategy that you have already set up in step 4 do this in root_component.py, see commented instructions/examples
- If deleting strategies do this in root_component.py, see commented instructions/examples
Requirements:
-
=python3.8
- sqlite3
- DB Browser for Sqlite
I, of course, welcome all contributions and improvements to the code, but remember there is no testnet on Coinbase; make your transactions small while you're testing!