diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7077370
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+*
+
+!pancaketrade/*.py
+!pancaketrade/conversations/*.py
+!pancaketrade/network/*.py
+!pancaketrade/persistence/*.py
+!pancaketrade/utils/*.py
+!pancaketrade/watchers/*.py
+!pancaketrade/abi
+!poetry.lock
+!poetry.toml
+!pyproject.toml
+!schema.yml
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27984de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+FROM python:3.9-buster AS build-deps
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
+    PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
+    PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=off \
+    PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK=on \
+    # poetry will be installed here
+    POETRY_HOME="/opt/poetry" \
+    POETRY_NO_INTERACTION=1 \
+    POETRY_NO_ANSI=1
+# add poetry to path
+ENV PATH="$POETRY_HOME/bin:$PATH"
+
+# install poetry
+RUN curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/install-poetry.py | python -
+
+COPY . ./
+RUN poetry install --no-dev
+
+FROM python:3.9-slim-buster
+
+WORKDIR /app
+# the user needs to be able to write the database file to /app
+RUN chown 1000:1000 /app
+
+ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
+    VENV_PATH="/app/.venv"
+# add virtual environment binaries to path
+ENV PATH="$VENV_PATH/bin:$PATH"
+
+COPY --from=build-deps /app .
+
+USER 1000
+
+ENTRYPOINT [ "trade" ]
+CMD [ "config.yml" ]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a997765..30b82fd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ the mechanism of this bot.
 
 ## Features
 
-The bot provides a lot of convenience trading featuers including:
+The bot provides a lot of convenience trading features including:
 
 - Tokens balance and price shown in status messages
 - Ability to make buy and sell limit orders including trailing stop loss