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Jean-Baptiste edited this page Mar 18, 2018 · 8 revisions

Starting in bot mode

The bot requires an API key with at least READ INFO and TRADE LIMIT permission. So far I am still doing tests and the bot do not send real orders but it shows you what it would have done. For the testing, the bot used fake unique UUID for the database inserts.

./bittrex -a ~/apikey -b

The bot will first check the database connection and if it can't connect to DB, it will exit. Depending on your value of MAX_ACTIVE_MARKETS (5 by default), the bot will trade on the top 5 markets (in Volume on the last 24h).

The bot starts one thread / market and will throw every minutes on the console some indicators (RSI: Wilder/Bechu and MACD). When the thread starts, the bot gathers 28 minutes of history to init arrays used for RSI and MACD. The bot will query your BTC available and will divide your available BTC by the number of active markets (5 by default).

So for example if you have 1 BTC in your BTC wallet, the bot will use 0.2BTC / thread.

If some API calls failed, they will also be shown on the console. The bot will also show BUY and SELL orders and will warn you if it did buy something but no opportunity to sell was found and show the loss(buy when RSI 14, in minutes, is lower than 30 and sell when RSI is greater than 70). When the bot sells it also show the gain (which includes the fees of bittrex at buy and sell, both are 0.25%).

Example of output:

./bittrex -a ~/apikey -b
Connected to Database(OK)
checking market performance of last day and hour (markets selection), using BTCs markets only
Selected Markets: BTC-ADA BTC-NBT BTC-ETH BTC-NEO BTC-XEM
BTC available for bot: 0.00981889
Started bot for market: BTC-ADA
Started bot for market: BTC-NBT
Started bot for market: BTC-ETH
Started bot for market: BTC-NEO
Started bot for market: BTC-XEM

After one minute, indicators start to show up:

Market: BTC-NEO, Wilder RSI: 44.95359859, Bechu RSI: 38.36391123, MACD: -0.00003895
Market: BTC-NBT, Wilder RSI: 53.59220323, Bechu RSI: 52.44107744, MACD: -0.00000026
Market: BTC-XEM, Wilder RSI: 35.76987774, Bechu RSI: 37.27272727, MACD: -0.00000019
Market: BTC-ADA, Wilder RSI: 35.87040794, Bechu RSI: 36.90476190, MACD: -0.00000018
Market: BTC-ETH, Wilder RSI: 16.57069250, Bechu RSI: 13.85211032, MACD: -0.00037986

Bittrex api servers are not perfect so you should also see some messages like

Error proccessing request: https://bittrex.com/api/v2.0/pub/market/GetTicks?marketName=BTC-XEM&tickInterval=oneMin, result field(array) empty. Retrying

Buy orders are shown like this

BUY BTC-XEM at 0.00003246, quantity: 60.49839803 (BTC: 0.00196378), fees: 0.00000491
BUY BTC-ADA at 0.00001853, quantity: 105.97830545 (BTC: 0.00196378), fees: 0.00000491

Do not use the bot, I have to add at least:

  • resuming if bot did shutdown with something to sell (order not market as processed in DB).
  • make sure the init is ok (API replied correctly for the init part of indicators)

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