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Title: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: bitcoinrocks on January 29, 2016, 06:48:06 PM
Are there altcoin trading bots available to use or do I need to write my own?


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: enet on January 29, 2016, 11:13:12 PM
You'd need to write it from scratch more or less. There is some basic code, e.g. NuBot which is a bot for market-making and connects to several exchanges. https://bitbucket.org/JordanLeePeershares/nubottrading/

Its unlikely someone would publish a profitable bot strategy (for free anyway).


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: Snail2 on January 29, 2016, 11:13:33 PM
Are there altcoin trading bots available to use or do I need to write my own?

C.A.T is probably the most famous: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507103.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507103.0)
Haas is another one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=211979.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=211979.0)
...and Qt Bitcoin Trader is a free and open source bot (please note that this one is a bit limited on supported exchanges) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201062.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201062.0)


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: bitcoinrocks on January 30, 2016, 01:18:48 AM
Can anyone offer comparisons of these?  Haas seems geared toward trading according to indicators.  CAT might be ideal but I think it's distributed as a java binary so anything could be lurking in there.  Does Qt support alts?


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: owm123 on January 30, 2016, 03:55:23 AM
Depending on your coding skills writhing a basic bot is quite simple. Python + selenium can be good start for this.


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: arbitrage on January 30, 2016, 10:53:20 AM
Quatloo trader is probably one of the cheapest and best.
But if you think you can make it better, that is good idea an you can sell it here.
Also it is always good to have diversity in offers.


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: enet on January 30, 2016, 12:53:58 PM
What exchanges would you want to connect to? NuBot has 20,000 lines of code for free. There is a bunch of things that are missing, but it's a start.


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: bitcoinrocks on January 30, 2016, 01:04:29 PM
Are any of these considered more trustworthy than others?


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: bitcoinrocks on January 30, 2016, 04:39:20 PM
What exchanges would you want to connect to? NuBot has 20,000 lines of code for free. There is a bunch of things that are missing, but it's a start.

I'm looking to connect to Poloniex.  Since there seem to be several fully-featured bots available, I may as well try them out before I try to reinvent the wheel.


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: bitcoinrocks on January 30, 2016, 05:59:01 PM
Can any of these run remotely?


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: onlinedragon on January 30, 2016, 06:01:53 PM
Sounds Nice have never used this before. Hope someone can share some names of great software without you have to do that much coding. Will try if it's worth using this more then once.


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: bitcoinrocks on January 30, 2016, 11:48:46 PM
CAT runs on Linux if you can run Java 8.  It doesn't run remotely but you can try to get around that with a remote desktop tool.

Haas can be run remotely.  An older version of it runs on Linux.

Qt Bitcoin Trader doesn't support Poloniex.

Quatloo only runs on Windows.


Title: Re: Altcoin trading bot
Post by: enet on January 31, 2016, 11:14:12 AM
PM sent. Anyone interested in these things can contact me, I'm willing to help out (if you're able to code i.e.).