This is a sample trading bot for use with BitMEX. It is a fork from https://github.com/IlyaKrotov/BitMEX-simple-trading-robot. It is free to use and modify for your own strategies.
Disclaimer: All persons who using this code do so at their own risk.
Develop on Testnet first!
Testnet trading is completely free and is identical to the live market.
Main information that one have to change is hidden in configuration.py.
- If you want to start from testnet.bitmex.com, then set TEST_EXCHANGE to True and put your credentials to API_KEY and API_SECRET.
- Then put amount of contracts that you want to trade in each trading execution (AMOUNT_MONEY_TO_TRADE) and choose preferred leverage (LEVERAGE).
- Then set preferred timeframe for strategy (TIMEFRAME). Available variants are: 1m, 5m, 1h, 1d.
- If you want change parameters of the strategy, go to strategy.py and set different parameters in this place:
macd, signal, hist = talib.MACD(ohlcv_candles.close.values,
fastperiod=8, slowperiod=28, signalperiod=9)If you want to change work logic of bot, you have to change 2 main things:
- Logic of prediction in strategy.py (look at method predict)
- Logic of trade execution in trader.py (look at method execute_trade)