socktrader

SockTrader v2

Cryptocurrency trading bot

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What is "SockTrader"?

SockTrader is an open source cryptocurrency trading bot. You can use it to automatically buy and/or sell cryptocurrencies based on a strategy that you've programmed. The strategy basically contains a set of rules that will define when and how the bot should act in the cryptocurrency market. These rules can be based on technical analysis (what is technical analysis?) or you could simply tell the bot to buy/sell at certain price levels. In fact, it's up to you to decide the rules of the game!

The name "SockTrader" comes from websocket based trading bot. Which means that SockTrader will try to make use of a realtime connection with the exchange. This has the advantage that one can act very quickly in a changing market with low latency.

Looking for SockTrader v1?

The dashboard is currently incompatible with SockTrader v2. Use SockTrader v1 instead

Features

• 🚀 Realtime super-fast websocket trading.
• 📈 50+ Technical indicators. (docs)
• 🌈 Written in TypeScript!
• 🌿 Unit tested source code.
• 📝 Paper trading a strategy on LIVE exchange data.
• 🏡 Backtesting engine with local data.
• 🚢 Run SockTrader inside a docker container.
• More features soon..

Getting started

Quickstart

• Git clone git clone [e-mail]:SockTrader/SockTrader.git && cd SockTrader
• Install NodeJS dependencies. npm i
• Copy config/default.json to config/local.json and edit.
• Run the MovingAverageStrategy on LocalExchange. npm start

Additional scripts

• Development watch mode. npm run watch
• Production build. npm run build
• Build and execute production build. npm run start:prod
• Run test suite. npm test

Use CLI

• Make sure to install project dependencies. npm i
• Run cli tool. ts-node src/cli.ts

You will see the following output:

Usage: socktrader [options] [command]

Options:
  -V, --version   output the version number
  -h, --help      display help for command

Commands:
  run [options]
  help [command]  display help for command

To start a strategy using the cli run: ts-node src/cli.ts run -s src/strategies/localMovingaverageStrategy.ts

Connect your Binance account

You feel like your strategy is production ready? Good! We'll help you to connect your SockTrader strategy to your Binance account.

• Copy config/default.json to config/local.json
• Go to your Binance account under API Management, create a new API key
• Provide the apiSecret and apiKey in config/local.json
• Don't forget to change the exchange in your strategy to new Binance() and you're good to go!

API key restrictions

By default, the newly created API key does not allow you to place orders, only reads are allowed. To get started:

• Go to your Binance account
• Under API restrictions enable 'Enable Spot & Margin Trading'

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DISCLAIMER

Using a trading bot does not mean guaranteed profit.
Also, trading crypto currency is considered high risk.
Losses are possible, which SockTrader cannot be held responsible for.