A simple discord bot which can watch the market for buy criteria (here, if a ticker breaches a user-defined price threshold).
Firstly, you need to have a discord server with a bot added to it; you can do this by following this guide or my medium article on this topic.
Once that is set-up, the bot is run from the discord_bot.py script, this needs to be configured with both the BOT_ID (bot token), and CHANNEL_ID which you can get by right-clicking the discord channel you wish to send messages into.
Note: If you are using an IDE like Spyder, then you need to set the runtime so that it runs from the console. This can be done by pressing ctrl+F6 and selecting the "Execute in an external system terminal".
Any commands can be called by using >command_name arg1 arg2 arg3 ... argn from the discord channel the bot is sending messages into.
>add ticker buy_price avg_vol- add a new ticker to the watchlist>change_price ticker price- change the watch price for a ticker on the watchlist>remove ticker- remove a ticker from the watchlist>nuke_watchlist- clean the whole watchlist of entries>reset_status- reset the status flag across all entries in the watchlist>print_watchlist- send the contents of the watchlist to the discord channel>watchlist_tickers- send all tickers on the watchlist to the discord channel>watchlist_ticker ticker- print the info of a single ticker on the watchlist>current_lod- current low of the day for any ticker>watch_market- perform the market watching task
- I personally use a modified version of this bot to watch for breakout candidates, using algorithmically drawn trend lines to deduce buy-in prices (see my medium article). The bot is deployed on my raspberry-pi since it doesn't require much computing power; I set up a cron-job to start the bot when the Pi boots up.
- This script is very bare-bones and quite simple, the purpose is to give a starting place for anyone wishing to develop further
- The watchlist.csv file does not contain any buy-prices + volume I am considering; this is merely an example.
- If you use this in different and exciting ways, or have ideas of how to improve, please get in touch!