Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
181 documents
This article reviews a two-month program in which individuals used market-making bots to provide liquidity for the ONE token on Binance. It examines participation, filled order volume, user retention, activity by weekly cohorts, and the program’s share of…
These release notes describe changes to Hummingbot’s client and Gateway, including a refactor of decentralized exchange connectors and reliability work on exchange connections. For strategy developers, the main additions include controller risk controls such…
The document explains V1 strategies as configurable algorithmic trading templates that monitor trading pairs on one or more exchanges. It distinguishes strategy logic, which defines behavior in code, from user-set parameters such as spread and order size,…
These release notes describe changes to Hummingbot’s client, Gateway, and related tools. Client updates include a headless command-line interface, new spot exchange connectors, connector fixes, and improvements to liquidity provision executors. The LP…
This announcement describes proposed changes to how Hummingbot Foundation would allocate maintenance work across its open-source trading software. The Foundation reported that connector upkeep consumed substantial effort while community trading volume and…
Hummingbot 1.27 introduces Strategy V2 templates for funding rate arbitrage and cross-exchange market making (XEMM). The funding strategy compares current perpetual futures funding rates across configured exchanges for selected tokens, then evaluates whether…
This overview explains Hummingbot executors as components that manage order lifecycles under conditions set by controllers using market data. It lists executor categories for positions, dollar-cost averaging, grids, arbitrage, time-weighted execution,…
The article introduces a marketplace model in which exchanges and token issuers fund campaigns that reward participants for supplying crypto market liquidity with market-making bots. Rewards are tied to observable order-book conditions: a spread-based…
This guide explains how to connect Hummingbot to Injective Helix for spot or perpetual trading, with a focus on delegated accounts. It describes separating a portfolio wallet that holds funds from a trading wallet that receives authority to trade those…
This controller monitors liquidation activity for a selected Binance perpetual futures pair and initiates a dollar-cost averaging trade when liquidations on the chosen side exceed a configured quote-currency threshold within a time window. It treats forced…
This guide explains how to connect a Hummingbot client to a centralized exchange or a blockchain protocol. Users run the connect command with the connector name, then enter the requested credentials. Exchanges generally ask for API keys, while blockchain…
This documentation explains how to configure multiple bid and ask orders using an order-level count, an amount step, and a spread step. The level count sets the number of orders on each side. The amount parameter increases or decreases the size of each…
This retrospective compares two short bot competition runs on the SEI-USDT pair. In the earlier run, a modified single-market liquidity strategy traded on Binance spot and lost money overall, with fees cited as a major factor. The later run used a modified…
In this interview, market maker Harry Yeh discusses applying electronic trading and Hummingbot to cryptocurrency market making. He stresses that operators need to understand limit orders, bid-ask spreads, order levels, parameters, and cancellations before…
The document explains how to configure and launch V2 strategies in Hummingbot. Configurable scripts can be started from YAML configuration, while controllers are loaded through a wrapper script that can list one or more controller configurations. Controllers…
The document describes an automated dollar-cost averaging executor that distributes an entry or exit across a sequence of orders. Its configuration includes a market, trading pair, side, order amounts and prices, leverage, order mode, and optional profit,…
The document explains Hummingbot connectors as adapters between its trading engine and exchange or blockchain interfaces. Using WebSocket and REST APIs, connectors standardize access to market and blockchain data and support actions such as placing,…
This guide explains how to deploy Hummingbot with Docker Compose, navigate its command-line interface, configure a script, and connect exchange API credentials. It walks through launching a directional futures script that uses the Relative Strength Index…
These release notes describe Hummingbot 1.20.0, centered on a V2 strategy framework for building modular strategies that can be backtested and deployed. The framework separates market data candles, controllers that coordinate strategy decisions, and…
This operational guide explains how a trading gateway can use dedicated RPC providers instead of public default endpoints when connecting to Solana and EVM networks. It describes the role of the RPC node in transaction speed, availability, data freshness,…
Hummingbot version 2.2.0 adds two trading controllers to its V2 framework. The Arbitrage controller is designed to trade price differences between spot venues, including automated market makers and central limit order books. It supports configurable exchange…
This guide explains how to connect a wallet to dYdX v4, obtain the chain address and secret phrase, and connect those credentials to Hummingbot. It covers both the command-line client and the web dashboard, then walks through configuring and launching a…
These release notes describe Hummingbot 2.5 changes relevant to automated trading. A Strategy V2 feature called PositionsHeld tracks spot balances and perpetual positions retained by stopped executors. Strategies can keep positions when execution stops,…
The article describes a crypto arbitrage strategy that compares Celo's cGLD-cUSD automated market maker with centralized exchange order books listing cGLD and cUSD pairs. Because the AMM prices trades through a constant-product pool while centralized venues…