grydstedt / robinbot

Robinhood API based swing trading bot

robinbot

Description

Robinbot is a command-line swing trading bot using Node.js and unofficial Robinhood API. It features:

• Fully-automated technical-analysis-based trading approach
• "Paper" trading mode, just suggesting what's to buy, sell, hold and which stops should be
• Risk management based portfolio allication
• Configurable (trailing) profit stops automatic allocation
• Earnings announcements impacts
• Market breadth analysis
• User defined strategies
• Fundamental analysis
• Last year backtest

The bot performs technical analysis and places orders, for best results it should be run once a day at the end of market day, ex. 15 minutes before close.

Quick-start

Step 1) Requirements

• Linux / MacOS
• Node.js (version 8.9 or higher)

Step 2) Install Robinbot

Run in your console,

git clone https://github.com/yura505/robinbot.git

Create your configuration file by copying conf-sample.js to conf.js:

cp conf-sample.js conf.js

• View and edit conf.js.
• You must add your Robinhood login/password and Quandl API key to configuration file for paper and live trading.
• For backtesting you have to provide only your Quandl API key to conf.js, no Robinhood credentials needed.
• Quandl API key can be free obtained from quandl.com

Install dependencies:

npm install

Run a previous year backtest of default strategy

./backtest.js

Run a default strategy in paper mode

./robinbot.js

After you've simulated, you can place real orders:

./robinbot.js --trade

For a list of options use:

./robinbot.js -h

Implement custom strategy

Feel free to implement custom strategy in strategy.js file and use it on you own risk. Default strategies there just for information and they should not be used as is for live trading.

Changelog

• v0.0.1
  • Initial version

TODO

• Use neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning
• Add more strategies, include adaptive
• Add stock screener to find securities to trade
• More accurate backtest with slippages and liqudity
• Adopt it for different brokers
• Improve usability and documentation

Thanks!

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License: MIT

• Copyright (C) 2018 Yury Kotlyarov

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