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Title: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 21, 2015, 09:44:35 AM
Hey all! A couple of months ago, I started working on an automated trading platform for Cryptsy. As I'm getting closer to a stable release I decided it was time that I released a developer preview so that I can start getting feedback from the community. It is a Spring boot web application, runs on Mac, Linux and Windows, and is ready to run out of the box without any database or web server installation required.

It currently supports a handful of indicators and safeties with more to be added as I go. Right now it only supports Cryptsy, but I will be adding more exchanges after more bugs are ironed out. It supports both simulated and live trading, price alerts, push notifications via Pushover and desktop notifications.

The project is open source under the GPLv3 license and the code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/AcctCapital/AcctBot (https://github.com/AcctCapital/AcctBot)

If you are interested in getting your hands on the developer preview it can be found here https://github.com/AcctCapital/AcctBot/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.1 (https://github.com/AcctCapital/AcctBot/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.1)

You can follow the project on Twitter here https://twitter.com/AcctCapital (https://twitter.com/AcctCapital)

Or follow the blog (with screenshots) here http://blog.acctcapital.com (http://blog.acctcapital.com)

This is currently a side-project, but I put a lot of hours into it and I would like to have some community involvement to finally bring to the open source market, a trade bot that rivals the paid solutions. I have a lot planned, but it can only be made possible with the feedback and advice of the potential users.

Thank you for reading and if you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, please let me know!


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: HeroCat on November 21, 2015, 01:35:46 PM
This is really nice project, which can be very popular  ;) You must create your own Webpage, and then start to offer this platform to the users  ;D


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: achow101 on November 21, 2015, 03:21:42 PM
Will this work on other exchanges? I have been hearing that Cryptsy is starting to go down. I have heard that they aren't allowing withdrawals and that strange things are happening.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: David890 on November 21, 2015, 04:28:01 PM
Very nice and good topic.Thanks


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 21, 2015, 06:23:25 PM
Thanks for the interest so far. Currently Cryptsy is the only exchange supported, simply because that's where my coins are. I will begin implementing more exchanges this evening as I can see that there are some concerns with Cryptsy at the moment. I am open to suggestions on the next exchange to implement. I will plan to drop a new build within a week with a new exchange added and more bug fixes. Any other questions or suggestions are most definitely welcome!


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: Pab on November 21, 2015, 11:51:45 PM
 Hi very nice project,thankyou for your work.About exchanges,not so many of them  in fact
C-Cex popular Bittrex Poloniex most popular exchanges i think


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 22, 2015, 04:01:41 AM
Thank you for the suggestions. I will take a look at the APIs tonight and start getting them implemented. The application was written with multiple exchanges in mind so it shouldn't be a huge undertaking.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: ezak on November 22, 2015, 01:01:39 PM
downloaded but what is instruction for installation and using ?


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: avatar_kiyoshi on November 22, 2015, 06:38:59 PM
Great app, like everyone said, better to implement it to other exchanges, my favorite one is bittrex. AFAIK cryptsy is have some trouble recently.
and add FAQ features on the app is will be great.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 22, 2015, 07:40:55 PM
There is a readme in the zip file with instructions on running it. But for simplicity sake, just run the jar using java -jar acctbot-v1.0.0-alpha.1.jar. Wait for it to give you the started message in the console and then in your browser, navigate to https://localhost:6160. It includes a bundled self-signed certificate so you will receive a warning about that. Just proceed past the warning and follow the steps in the (very rough) setup wizard.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: ThunderThomas on November 23, 2015, 02:26:54 PM
HI mate,

I see your script is open source (always good).

Will you consider making it link with the BIttrex API?


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: Patatas on November 23, 2015, 03:27:43 PM
Whenever the term automatic and bots are mentioned in the same sentence the only thing comes to my mind is 'How secure it is ?" Because security plays a very important role in such platforms.You can a not can beat other bot and we are in no short of bot programmers .They can simply make a bot to divert the transactions to another address .Will surely check out your github and leave a detailed review .


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 23, 2015, 05:28:46 PM
I completely understand the security concerns surrounding a platform like this. That is why I went the route of open-sourcing the entire thing rather than throwing a SaaS platform online, hiding the source, and asking people to trust me with their exchange keys. I do not enjoy that level of liability. I am well aware that there are many bot developers out there and many of them are significantly more knowledgeable than I am in this area. However, these bot developers don't seem to be very keen on providing a beginner-friendly platform to manage the bots as much as a set of scripts that require at least some level of scripting knowledge to setup and use. My goal is more to provide the complete platform for creating, managing and running the bots. And to give the control to the user so that they need not worry about any shady business going on behind the scenes.

As far as security, I wouldn't be comfortable taking it live on a production server yet, but I do try to keep that thought in mind as I refactor pieces of it. I will be posting more information about customizing the core configuration in the next couple of days to help users better tailor the application to their own needs and to increase the security.

Again, thank you for an objective opinion and I look forward to more feedback.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 23, 2015, 05:46:49 PM
HI mate,

I see your script is open source (always good).

Will you consider making it link with the BIttrex API?

Yes. I am currently implementing Poloniex and then will start on C-CEX and Bittrex.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: alwinlinzee on November 24, 2015, 05:43:19 PM
HI mate,

I see your script is open source (always good).

Will you consider making it link with the BIttrex API?

Yes. I am currently implementing Poloniex and then will start on C-CEX and Bittrex.
This is a good news and i hope it will be possible to do some cryptocoin trading arbitrage with this soon.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: arunka71 on November 24, 2015, 09:05:29 PM
Put an abstraction layer between exchanges and your tradebot, so you don't have to rewrite it when you add a new exchange.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 25, 2015, 07:28:25 PM
I had roughly done that, but now I'm refactoring to make the exchange API consistent across the board. I had toyed with using the open source xchange library which touts support for 50+ exchanges, however I was not able to get it to work reliably enough to be practical. Still aiming to have it ready by the end of the week, but with the holiday Tomorrow, it may be the end of the weekend before a new preview is ready.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: arunka71 on November 25, 2015, 08:14:50 PM
I wrote a similar lib and already thought about offering you help with the abstraction. But I think streaming APIs and FIX are the future and my lib is not ready for that, yet.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 25, 2015, 09:20:39 PM
I keep fighting between periodic polling and streaming APIs. Currently I am polling at a configurable interval simply because I'm a bit uneasy about opening the number of connections it would require to subscribe to every channel we are interested in. I may do some tests and see how it performs. I am well aware that using sockets will make response time much better but it would be a relatively large undertaking to switch over at the moment.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: yinyan7 on November 25, 2015, 11:09:08 PM
great topic  :o


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: arunka71 on November 25, 2015, 11:12:24 PM
I keep fighting between periodic polling and streaming APIs. Currently I am polling at a configurable interval simply because I'm a bit uneasy about opening the number of connections it would require to subscribe to every channel we are interested in. I may do some tests and see how it performs. I am well aware that using sockets will make response time much better but it would be a relatively large undertaking to switch over at the moment.

Same here. So I started a new bot version from scratch. If your bot can live with a few currency pairs, you might stick to the polling concept. But my arb stuff needs many pairs to function well, so streaming APIs are the way to go for me.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 27, 2015, 06:09:35 PM
I think that it makes perfect sense to use the streaming API for the bots. I am starting on the required changes to implement that. The polling bit will still come in handy for keeping the pairs and the balances current but for trade analysis the streaming API makes more sense no matter how I look at it. That will set me back a bit but hopefully it will be pretty quick to implement.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: arunka71 on November 27, 2015, 09:47:30 PM
In a perfect design, you could use both concepts. Make the bot a listener to the exchange API implementations, but also keep the option to query prices.

But also store the prices somewhere, so different strategies could use them without polling them again.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 27, 2015, 09:58:39 PM
Right now I store all of the trades in an embedded neo4j database and create candles from them as I ready them for the TA to take place.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: jeremy grol on November 27, 2015, 10:00:21 PM
Main difference from C.A.T?


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on November 27, 2015, 10:26:01 PM
Mine is open source and free and it looks like C.A.T charges for the core and then for each exchange API integration.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: ezak on December 10, 2015, 12:18:37 PM
Is this Bot will support exchange site No fee like btcc or huobi ?


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: Sampey on December 10, 2015, 12:23:53 PM
Mine is open source and free and it looks like C.A.T charges for the core and then for each exchange API integration.

True story  ;)
Good luck with your project  :)


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: HeroCat on December 10, 2015, 03:46:56 PM
May be you can try to adjust Meta Trader4 to BTC trade, Meta Trader4 is very popular software in all Forex market. Brokers just adjust Meta Trader4 for their clients use  :D


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on December 10, 2015, 09:36:14 PM
It has been a while since I've posted an update. We had a few nights of freezing temperatures here in CO and apparently that was too much for my phone lines and they broke. My provider can't get a tech out until next week so that is a bummer. In the mean-time, I have been working on what I can without an internet connection, which is almost nothing. I have, however, started implementing the streaming APIs for the exchanges, with polling as a backup. At the moment, the jawampa library does not support connecting through a proxy so that has been a bit of a hassle. Once my internet is repaired I hope to be able to hammer out the changes and get a new preview out the door.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on December 16, 2015, 06:28:44 PM
This project has been halted as we are in the middle of a merger. More information to be released in the near future.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: bhokor on December 18, 2015, 01:21:55 AM
mmm, actually with cratpsy dead would be really important to add some other exchanges


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: gablay12 on December 21, 2015, 04:49:38 AM
Very interesting, well done.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: lemoncoolers on December 21, 2015, 10:56:18 AM
This project has been halted as we are in the middle of a merger. More information to be released in the near future.
A new project was not planned well and its development just stopped in the middle, which will cause you to lose loyal users.  Any way I hope your platform is launching soon with new features and adding other exchanges.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: LazerPanther on December 23, 2015, 09:19:59 AM
This project has been halted as we are in the middle of a merger. More information to be released in the near future.

That's pretty disappointing... Cryptsy is a joke, was waiting for your Polo updates. Also closing the repo... smh


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on December 28, 2015, 05:46:29 PM
Part of the merger included a no-compete clause and required my pulling the repo offline. I would say more but have been asked not to yet. When announcing the project here, I had absolutely no idea that someone  would be interested in acquiring the platform after seeing it here, so I do humbly apologize for a botched launch. On the other hand, I feel like the product that is emerging as a result is more the vision that I had in mind when I set out to create this thing.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: Snail2 on December 28, 2015, 05:59:51 PM
Part of the merger included a no-compete clause and required my pulling the repo offline. I would say more but have been asked not to yet. When announcing the project here, I had absolutely no idea that someone  would be interested in acquiring the platform after seeing it here, so I do humbly apologize for a botched launch. On the other hand, I feel like the product that is emerging as a result is more the vision that I had in mind when I set out to create this thing.

No problem, sometimes such things can happen. Is this emerging new product will be opensource or some commercial stuff?


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: DanArmstrong on December 28, 2015, 06:06:58 PM
It is a commercial product. However, since I do feel like I unintentionally stiffed you guys I will push to get it into some hands for free.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: Rkana on December 30, 2015, 07:17:02 PM
It is a commercial product. However, since I do feel like I unintentionally stiffed you guys I will push to get it into some hands for free.
I was about to make a deal with you unless you still have the project up for corporation.


Title: Re: [ANN] AcctBot - Open source automated trading platform
Post by: freemanjackal on March 28, 2017, 09:04:46 PM
have any one of you have used jawampa for wamp protocol defining a proxy?, i am trying to connect to poloniex, the services they provide but i am behind a proxy and I havent been able to connect, i do not want to use the get or post methods through https for trading