Trader

Automatic trader that trades the custom built algorithm documented here.

Local Development configuration

• This project requires node to run. It was developed using version 8.9.4.
• Once installed get the required dependencies with the command: npm i
• There is a configuration file that needs to be renamed and supplied with the bitfinex secret/key:
  • mv src/config-example.js src/exchanges/config.js
  • npm start ui - Runs the trader with a ui controller on port 8882: http://localhost:8882.
  • npm start dev - Runs the trader with commands availble from the terminal
  • npm start - Runs the trader with the endpoint: http://localhost:8000. This can receive http requests from this postman project to send actions to bitfinex. A description of the API can be found here.
  • npm run docs - Generates code documentation as a static html page.

Commands

• [b]alances - Gets the available balance quoted in all of the supported pairs

[
    {
        pair: 'ETHBTC',
        balance: 192.338,
        tradeable: 480.845
    }
]

• [s]tate - Gets the current state of the bot

    state = {
        "state": "active",
        "balances": [{
            "pair": "ETHBTC",
            "balance": 0.13802080706832412,
            "tradeable": 0.3130893379539062
        }],
        "activePairs": [{
            "pair": "ETHBTC",
            "balance": 0.13802080706832412,
            "side": "buy",
            "positions": [],
            "orders": []
        }]
    }

• [o]rders - Gets all open orders

    [{
         "id":5243424763,
         "pair":"ETHBTC",
         "price": 0.043615,
         "side":"buy",
         "remaining_amount": .565
    }]            

• [p]ositions - Gets all open positions

    [{
        "id": "134514333",
        "pair": "ETHBTC",
        "base": 0.089331,
        "amount": 0.13875501,
        "profit": -0.00001565073259794,
        "side": "buy"
    }]

• [buy] - Places a margin long trade on the ETHBTC pair worth 0.02 ETH at the price of the lowest ask. Returns the current state
• [sell] - Places a margin short trade on the ETHBTC pair worth 0.02 ETH at the price of the highest bid. Returns the current state
• [c]lose - Closes an open ETHBTC position
• [e]xit - Closes all open positions and orders
• [r]esolve pending orders - Recursively attempts to re-submit any unfilled open orders

Server configuration

• pm2 was used in place of node as an advanced, production process manager for Node.js. Start pm2 with the command:
  • pm2 start src/app.js --name trader