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A program performing automated tasks.

A bot is a program that performs automated tasks on the internet.

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Are there any open-source trading bots out there?

Has anyone published an open-source trading bot that runs on a Bitcoin exchange?
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How to build a bitcoin trading bot

I'd like to experiment with bitcoin technology, crypto currency, and encryption. I thought the best way to accomplish that is building my very own bitcoin trading bot. It seems like a daunting task, but I think I can accomplish this in the following…
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Parameters for buy order on BTC-E

Using the BTC-E API 'm getting an error of You incorrectly entered one of fields. when I post this as the data in a buy order. {'pair': 'btc_usd', 'amount': 0.1, 'rate': 44.7084704, 'type': 'buy', 'method': 'Trade'} Does anyone know where I'm going…
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How hard is it to transfer money between Bitcoin exchanges?

Say I had a 100$ in a Mt.Gox account and wanted to send it to my TradeHill account, how hard is it to perform a transaction like that without going through a separate bank account? I'm mostly asking in a context of automated trading bots, buying and…
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Where can I find an overview of Bitcoin exchange APIs?

Where can I find information on a large number of "exchange" or "trading platform" APIs showing which currencies (digital and fiat) they convert between?
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Is there an open source bot I can get for BTC-E?

I'm interested in automatic trading but I don't know how to get started.
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Is Storj still alive as a project?

gmaxwell posted this a few years ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53855.msg642768#msg642768 What became of the project?
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Trading bot - what is the maximum load an exchange server can take?

I did create my own altcoins trading bot in Python3. The bot trades on the minute market and is multi-threaded. Which makes that a lot of requests are send to the server of the exchange. I'm (was) using Bittrex as exchange. Although it did works,…
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Double spend / bitcoin Bots

As you all know it's not very secure to send bitcoins on known addresses, some bots are watching. Could someone explain me how these bots manage to propagate several transactions of the very same transaction output in the network (ex…
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Determining proper order price on BTCe

I am writing a custom bot for trading at different Exchanges, while BTCe is the only one I have currently implemented to about 95%. Now I am only hanging at one point: If my Bot decides to Sell/Buy, how can I determine the proper price for my…
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Need help understanding how to profit from bitcoin trading (like forex?)

I want to understand something very basic. How does trading work between BTC & USD. Let's say I have 1 BTC at US 100. The naive idea is "buy low" and "sell high". But I don't grasp how that work, ie, how is possible to profit in both directions. If…
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What is the right method to calculate Relative Strength Index (RSI) for incoming real time data?

I am working on a trading bot that computes values for several indicators including the RSI. I subscribe to real time minute-level market data from an exchanges, and as new data arrives, I get the most recent tick, and re-compute indicators. Let's…
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How to get Bittrex trading data for 10 different coins?

I am writing MATLAB code to get the trading data from Bittrex. I have 10 different coin trading volume data that I want to know. To do this, I have a few ideas but not work in Bittrex. Use 'getmarkethistory' for each alt coin trading information…
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How to build a Java trade bot

So my friend is interested in cryptocurrency and I decided to give him a hand, since he wants to start buying and selling coins for profit. I thought I could accomplish this, so I will point out my plan: I will look into GDAX, which from what I…
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Bittrex Bot buy at ask

I am trying to write a bot to use it on Bittrex with nodeJs, but the documentation is very poor. My problem is that I would like to be able to buy the last ask, like when in the web you click in bid the option ask, this way the buy is instant. For…
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