LN Markets Technical Analysis Bot

A simple bot for algorithmic trading with Trading View Technical Analysis signals on LN Markets.

⚠️ CAUTION: Use at your own risk. This repo is meant to be a reference and has been created for educational purposes only.

Please use carefully, preferably on Testnet or with small amounts.

Install

Download this Github repopsitory and install dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Authentication

For authentication, you need your LN Markets API Key, Secret, and Passphrase.

Without them, you will not be able to authenticate.

⚠️ Never share your API Key, Secret or Passphrase

Open the 'configuration.yml' file and complete with your LN Markets API credentials. You can also add the paramter network with 'testnet' for LN Markets Testnet and 'mainnet' for LN Markets mainnet.

Strategies

Current available strategies are:

• ta_summary: use the Trading View Technical Analysis summary indicator based on 27 signals (oscillators and moving averages) to open and keep a long or short future position
• More to come More details below.

Open the 'configuration.yml' file. Then choose the strategy you want for your trading bot affecting True to the corresponding variable (and False to others).

# Example
Strategies: 
  ta_summary: True

Parameters

In 'configuration.yml', you can define some parameters to customize your strategy.

# Example
ta_summary:
  quantity: 10 #type=int, min=1, quantity of each open position
  leverage: 10 #type=int, min=1, max=100
  interval: '5m' #type=string, available interval between 2 TA summary signals: "1m", "5m", "15m", "30m", "1h", "2h", "4h", "1d", "1W", "1M"
  timeout: 60 #type=int, min=1, number of minutes the trading strat will be running  

Run program

Open 'main.py' file and simply run it. If there is no error, you should see this message in the terminal:

Connection to LN Markets ok!

If not, double check the API Key, Secret, and Passphrase you entered.

LN Markets API has requests limits (30 requests per minute).

ta_summary

How does it work?
Once the bot is launched, it follows Trading View Technical Analysis summary indicator based on 27 signals (oscillators and moving averages) to open and keep running a long Future position while the signal is "BUY" or "STRONG BUY", open and keep running a short Future position while the signal is "SHORT" or "STRONG SHORT", or close any position while the signal is "NEUTRAL". While the bot is running, you can have either 0 or 1 position running maximum.

Parameters to customize the bot

• quantity: the quantity (in USD) for the position running
• leverage: the leverage for the position running
• interval: interval between 2 TA summary signals: "1m" for 1 minute, "5m" for 5 minutes, "15m" for 15 minutes, "30m" for 30 minutes, "1h" for 1 hour, "2h" for 2 hours, "4h" for 4 hours, "1d" for 1 day, "1W" for 1 week, "1M" for 1 month
• interval: number of minutes the trading strat will be running

# Example
ta_summary:
  quantity: 10 #type=int, min=1, quantity of each open position
  leverage: 10 #type=int, min=1, max=100
  interval: '5m' #type=string, available interval between 2 TA summary signals: "1m", "5m", "15m", "30m", "1h", "2h", "4h", "1d", "1W", "1M"
  timeout: 60 #type=int, min=1, number of minutes the trading strat will be running

History of trades

After timeout, you will find all the bot's trades during its execution in the CSV 'df_closed_pos.csv' in the folder Strategies.

To go further

Feel free to customize the bot and add your own strategies.

If you want to use more features from LN Markets API, checkk out the full documentation.