Trading Bots 🤖

A simple framework for bootstrapping your Crypto Trading Bots on Python 3.6+

Disclaimer: Still at an early stage of development. Rapidly evolving APIs.

Trading-Bots is a general purpose mini-framework for developing an algorithmic trading bot on crypto currencies, thus it makes no assumption of your trading goals.

Installation

Requirements

• macOS, Windows or Linux
• Python 3.6 or 3.7

To install Trading-Bots, simply use poetry (or pip, of course):

poetry add trading-bots

Remember to activate the virtual environment

poetry shell

Getting started

Let's learn by example creating a simple bot that fetches your Bitcoin balance on Buda.com!

We'll assume you have Trading-Bots installed already, and your virtual environment is active.

Create a project

If this is your first time, you’ll have to take care of some initial setup. Namely, you’ll need to auto-generate some code that establishes a Trading-Bots project.

From the command line, cd into a directory where you’d like to store your bots, then run the following command:

bots-admin startproject

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Name [MyAwesomeProject]: MyProject
Directory [.]: .

This will create a my_project directory in your current directory.

Let’s look at what startproject created:

root/
    bots.py
    secrets.yml
    settings.yml
    my_project/
        __init__.py

These files are:

• The outer root/ directory is just a container for your project. Its name doesn't matter to Trading-Bots; you can rename it to anything you like.
• bots.py: A handy CLI that lets you interact with this Trading-Bots project in various ways.
• secrets.yml: A configuration file to store your project secrets like API keys and wallets DON'T SHARE YOUR SECRETS WITH ANYONE!
• settings.yml: Global settings for this project.
• The inner my_project/ directory is the actual Python package for your project.
• my_project/__init__.py: An empty file that tells Python that this directory should be considered a Python package.

Create a new bot

Now that your "project" is set up, you're set to start doing work.

Let's create a simple bot that fetches your Bitcoin balance on Buda.com!

Each bot you write in Trading-Bots consists of a Python package that follows a certain convention. Trading-Bots comes with a utility that automatically generates the basic directory structure of a bot, so you can focus on writing code rather than creating directories.

Your bots can live anywhere on your Python path. In this tutorial, we’ll create our bot as a submodule of my_project.

To create your bot, make sure you're in the same directory as bots.py and type this command:

python bots.py createbot

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Name [MyAwesomeBot]: MyBot
Directory (your projects dir): my_project

That’ll create a directory my_bot, which is laid out like this:

my_bot/
    __init__.py
    bot.py
    configs/
        default.yml

This directory structure will house the MyBot bot.

You'll also have to "install" your new bot, by adding it to the project's settings.yml file.

settings.yml

installed_bots:
  - my_project.my_bot.bot.MyBot  

Configure you Buda.com account's API_KEY and API_SECRET onto secrets.yml credentials:

You can request your API credentials on you account's profile on Buda.com

secrets.yml

credentials:
  Buda:
    key: MY_API_KEY
    secret: MY_API_SECRET

Write yout first Bot logic

Now let's write the code to fetch the Bitcoin balance on Buda.com implementing the Bot's algorithm. The Bot's logic resides in the my_project/my_bot/bot.py module created by the createbot command:

my_project/my_bot/bot.py

# Base class that all Bots must inherit from
from trading_bots.bots import Bot

# The settings module contains all values from settings.yml and secrets.yml
from trading_bots.conf import settings

# API Wrapper for Buda.com
from trading_api_wrappers import Buda


class MyBot(Bot):
    # The label is a unique identifier you assign to your bot on Trading-Bots
    label = 'MyBot'

    def _setup(self, config):
        # Get API_KEY and API_SECRET from credentials
        credentials = settings.credentials['Buda']
        key = credentials['key']
        secret = credentials['secret']

        # Initialize a Buda Auth client
        self.buda = Buda.Auth(key, secret)

    def _algorithm(self):
        # Fetch the Bitcoin balance from Buda.com
        balance = self.buda.balance('BTC')

        # Log the Bitcoin balance
        self.log.info(f'I have {balance.amount.amount} BTC')

    def _abort(self):
        # Abort logic, runs on exception
        self.log.error(f'Something went wrong with MyBot!')

Bot execution

Run the bot!

python bots.py run MyBot

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Global settings
- Settings files: None
- Logs file: log.txt

Bot: MyBot
- Config file: default

Starting MyBot 1530691595: 2018-07-04 08:06:35
I have 1.0 BTC
Run time: .9972 seconds
Ending MyBot 1530691595: 2018-07-04 08:06:36

Or put it to work in a loop!

python bots.py loop MyBot --interval 5

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Global settings
- Settings files: None
- Logs file: log.txt

Bot: MyBot
- Config file: default
- Interval: 5s

Starting MyBot 1530692725: 2018-07-04 08:25:25
I have 1.0 BTC
Run time: 1.3611 seconds
Ending MyBot 1530692725: 2018-07-04 08:25:26

Starting MyBot 1530692735: 2018-07-04 08:25:31
I have 1.0 BTC
Run time: 1.3632 seconds
Ending MyBot 1530692735: 2018-07-04 08:25:32

Add more features

We can make our Bot a little more modular, let's now fetch our Ethereum balance adding a currency key on MyBot default config file on my_project/my_bot/configs/default.yml:

my_project/my_bot/configs/default.yml

currency: ETH

Now use the new currency config on MyBot by modifying the Bot's logic:

my_project/my_bot/bot.py

from trading_bots.bots import Bot
from trading_bots.conf import settings

from trading_api_wrappers import Buda


class MyBot(Bot):
    label = 'MyBot'

    def _setup(self, config):
        # Get currency from config
        self.currency = config['currency']

        # Get API_KEY and API_SECRET from credentials
        credentials = settings.credentials['Buda']
        key = credentials['key']
        secret = credentials['secret']

        # Initialize a Buda Auth client
        self.buda = Buda.Auth(key, secret)

    def _algorithm(self):
        # Fetch the currency balance from Buda.com
        balance = self.buda.balance(self.currency)

        # Log the currency balance
        self.log.info(f'I have {balance.amount.amount} {self.currency}')

    def _abort(self):
        # Abort logic, runs on exception
        self.log.error(f'Something went wrong with MyBot!')

Run the bot!

python bots.py run MyBot

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Global settings
- Settings files: None
- Logs file: log.txt

Bot: MyBot
- Config file: default

Starting MyBot 1530691595: 2018-07-04 08:06:35
I have 5.0 ETH
Run time: .9972 seconds
Ending MyBot 1530691595: 2018-07-04 08:06:36

Or put it to work in a loop!

python bots.py loop MyBot --interval 10

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Global settings
- Settings files: None
- Logs file: log.txt

Bot: MyBot
- Config file: default
- Interval: 5s

Starting MyBot 1530692725: 2018-07-04 08:25:25
I have 5.0 ETH
Run time: 1.3611 seconds
Ending MyBot 1530692725: 2018-07-04 08:25:26

Starting MyBot 1530692735: 2018-07-04 08:25:31
I have 5.0 ETH
Run time: 1.3632 seconds
Ending MyBot 1530692735: 2018-07-04 08:25:32

Bots CLI

Trading-Bots comes with a handy CLI named... bots-admin!

Commands

Start a project

python bots.py startproject

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Name [MyAwesomeProject]: MyProject
Directory [.]: .

Success: 'MyProject' project was successfully created on '.'

startproject creates a Trading-Bots project directory structure for the given project NAME in the current directory . or optionally in the given DIRECTORY.

project_dir/
- project_name/
- bots.py
- secrets.yml
- settings.yml

Create a bot

python bots.py createbot

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Name [MyAwesomeBot]: MyBot
Directory (your projects dir): my_project

Success: 'MyBot' bot was successfully created on 'my_project'

createbot creates a Bot's directory structure for the given bot NAME in the current directory . or optionally in the given DIRECTORY.

project_dir/
- project_name/
- bots.py
- secrets.yml
- settings.yml

After creating or a new Bot, you must add it to installed_bots on settings.yml:

# settings.yml

installed_bots:
  - trading_bots.mybot.bot.MyBot  

Run bot once

python bots.py run BOT [OPTIONS]

Run a specified BOT by label. Options:

python bots.py run Example

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Global settings
- Settings files: None
- Logs file: log.txt

Bot: Example
- Config file: default

Starting Example 1530691595: 2018-07-04 08:06:35
This is an example bot
Doing work for 5 seconds...
Finished!
Run time: 5.9972 seconds
Ending Example 1530691595: 2018-07-04 08:06:40

Run bot in a loop

python bots.py loop BOT [OPTIONS]

Schedule a BOT (by label) to run on an interval. Options:

python bots.py loop Example -i 5

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Global settings
- Settings files: None
- Logs file: log.txt

Bot: Example
- Config file: default
- Interval: 5s

Starting Example 1530692725: 2018-07-04 08:25:25
This is an example bot
Doing work for 5 seconds...
Finished!
Run time: 5.3611 seconds
Ending Example 1530692725: 2018-07-04 08:25:30

Starting Example 1530692735: 2018-07-04 08:25:35
This is an example bot
Doing work for 5 seconds...
Finished!
Run time: 5.3632 seconds
Ending Example 1530692735: 2018-07-04 08:25:40

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Disclaimer

USE THE SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN MONEY. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.

THE AUTHORS AND ALL AFFILIATES ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR TRADING RESULTS.