Short market orders

[petmo]

Hi,

love the package.

See there is a working branch for supporting loans / margin trading in backtest exchange. However, is there currently a way to make short trades via the binance exchange?

[gbeced]

Hi. Thanks for your kind comment!

Yes, Basana lets you use Binance cross margin and isolated margin accounts.

Here are links to relevant functionality:

1. Use one of these attributes to get right margin account (note that the examples use the spot account):

• https://basana.readthedocs.io/en/latest/binance_exchange.html#basana.external.binance.exchange.Exchange.cross_margin_account
• https://basana.readthedocs.io/en/latest/binance_exchange.html#basana.external.binance.exchange.Exchange.isolated_margin_account

2. Depending on the margin account that you're using, use one of these two methods to fund the account:

• https://basana.readthedocs.io/en/latest/binance_cross.html#basana.external.binance.cross_margin.Account.transfer_from_spot_account
• https://basana.readthedocs.io/en/latest/binance_isolated.html#basana.external.binance.isolated_margin.Account.transfer_from_spot_account

3. Create your orders setting side_effect_type to MARGIN_BUY for auto borrowing and to AUTO_REPAY for auto repaying.