Journey to crypto trading bot creation

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Introduction:
Hello everyone. My name starts with L and I'm from a little country called Lithuania. I work as a software test engineer for 5 years, reading BHW since 2011, have achieved nothing good in life and have a lot of free time.
One time I got bored at work of doing some routine stuff so I came up with an idea that it would be nice to automate some of my work stuff. At first it was just some simple browser macros (plugin scripts that let you record your clicks and replay them), then I started playing with scripting software called AutoIT and fell in love with it. I got better. I felt power.
Then bitcoin hit 1000$ for the first time and that was the time I started mining and trading.

Why I'm doing this and why I'm writing this thread:
First of all - I'm lazy. I need to motivate myself to take action and nobody is going to do this for me. Having a responsibility to write updates in this thread might help create responsibility to take action and work on this project I want to start. I will write more specific details in the future posts.

Ze plan:
Start creating client for Binance's API that would execute my trading strategies
Start testing with very low budget for some time (could be months/weeks) to see if stuff is working
Improve my current list of trading strategies, add new strategies to the software
Once there is something working I'll probably start twitch streaming the software in action 24/7 for everyone to see
Generate more ideas along the process of this journey
Expand to other crypto exchanges
Update this thread, answer questions and help you guys with everything I can starting from trading strategies ending with database configuration on your local machine for cryptodata storage
Complete everything until my 30th birthday (February)
If stuff goes right - there will be three options: 1. to profit from using software, 2. to profit from selling software
If stuff goes wrong, well I'd learn a lot from this journey and have good experience for the future and feel good because *I took action*. So it's win-win anyways

What I'm not planning to do:
Answer anything that is against BHW rules
Share vital parts of the software code
Set a monetary goal of X $/day
Stop until the last part of my plan is reached


To be continued...
 
I will follow your journey, good luck!

Some questions: which language or which tool will you use for your bot ?
 
I will follow your journey, good luck!

Some questions: which language or which tool will you use for your bot ?
I use AutoIT, it's basic-like scripting language
 
I use AutoIT, it's basic-like scripting language

I already used AutoIt and i'm not really sure that is the best tool for what you want to do.
Maybe you could think about Python for it with any automation library (Automate, PyWinauto) and then you will be able to use a python data library like Pandas to process the datas...

Anyway, good luck ;)
 
I already used AutoIt and i'm not really sure that is the best tool for what you want to do.
Maybe you could think about Python for it with any automation library (Automate, PyWinauto) and then you will be able to use a python data library like Pandas to process the datas...
Anyway, good luck ;)

Well, I'm not a programmer and I don't know Python :D. There are probably more tools better suitable for this task, but I'm sticking to what I know and do best ;).
Thank you!.
 
Update #1
Start creating client for Binance's API that would execute my trading strategies. Part #1

Won't be a big update, but I can tell that things are going as expected.
Got used to Binance's API, wrote couple of functions that require signature creation for GET request. If someone will need more info on that, I'll gladly help as it's brobably the most complex thing out of the whole API. From now on it shouldn't be too hard to write other functions.

Functions that I need (green are done):
  • Server time check
  • List active orders
  • Create new LIMIT order
  • Cancel order
  • Change LIMIT order price
Those should be enough for a good start. Then will start drawing UI and connect everything together.
 
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