bekerov / bitmex-simple-trading-robot

Simple BitMEX trading robot.

BitMEX simple trading robot.

Overview

This is a sample trading bot for use with BitMEX. It is free to use and modify for your own strategies.

Disclaimer: All persons who using this code do so at their own risk.

Develop on Testnet first!
Testnet trading is completely free and is identical to the live market.

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Getting started

Main information that one have to change is hidden in configuration.py.

1. If you want to start from testnet.bitmex.com, then set TEST_EXCHANGE to True and put your credentials to API_KEY and API_SECRET.
2. Then put amount of contracts that you want to trade in each trading execution (AMOUNT_MONEY_TO_TRADE) and choose preferred leverage (LEVERAGE).
3. Then set preferred timeframe for strategy (TIMEFRAME). Available variants are: 1m, 5m, 1h, 1d.
4. If you want change parameters of the strategy, go to strategy.py and set different parameters in this place:

macd, signal, hist = talib.MACD(ohlcv_candles.close.values,
                                fastperiod=8, slowperiod=28, signalperiod=9)

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For advanced users

If you want to change work logic of bot, you have to change 2 main things:

1. Logic of prediction in strategy.py (look at method predict)
2. Logic of trade execution in trader.py (look at method execute_trade)

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Notes

This code was written for my publication in Habr - https://habr.com/post/358398/.

Here my affiliate link for your registration on BitMEX.

https://www.bitmex.com/register/dduBF7

Users who have signed up with a valid affiliate link will receive a 10% fee discount for 6 months.