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.
152 documents
This guide explains how to route OctoBot exchange requests through a proxy. It identifies two reasons: keeping a consistent outbound IP address for exchange IP allowlisting, and continuing to use the same IP while traveling. The instructions focus on setting…
The document explains how an automated trading strategy can be divided between a trading mode and evaluators. The trading mode handles order creation, sizing, maintenance, and cancellation. Evaluators provide signals that activate the mode when conditions…
This guide describes a flexible grid trading mode for spot markets. Instead of starting from a chosen number of open orders, the trader specifies upper and lower price bounds along with grid spacing and increments. The system then determines the required buy…
This document explains OctoBot’s architecture for moving market and other data through a modular trading system. It uses asynchronous producer-consumer channels to notify components when new information arrives, aiming to avoid polling loops and keep…
Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) invests a fixed amount at regular intervals regardless of market price. The approach buys more units when prices are lower and fewer when they are higher, spreading entry points over time. The document presents it as a way to…
The document introduces cryptocurrency trading bots as software that places trades according to preset rules. It describes three possible inputs: technical indicators such as moving averages and RSI, predictions based on historical data, and external trading…
The document explains the role of a trading mode in an OctoBot strategy: it creates, maintains, and cancels exchange orders, while evaluators can send signals that prompt the mode to act. This separates signal generation from order handling. Some modes,…
This introductory guide outlines a workflow for training and backtesting a cryptocurrency trading agent using a scripting framework. It explains reinforcement learning as an approach in which an agent takes actions in a market environment and receives…
The document explains HODL as a cryptocurrency-community term for retaining an asset through price fluctuations, in contrast with frequent short-term trading. It traces the term to a misspelling in a Bitcoin forum post during a market decline and describes…
This documentation introduces OctoBot script, an early alpha Python framework for writing automated trading strategies with an interface compared to Pine Script. Its example uses RSI to identify buy entries: it computes the indicator over historical candle…
This short OctoBot configuration guide explains three ways to specify an order price relative to a crypto market. A constant sets an exact price. A signed price delta moves the current price up or down by a fixed amount, while a signed percentage changes it…
The document explains how to run strategy backtests in OctoBot: choose a profile, download historical market data, select a data file, run the simulation, and review performance summaries, charts, and individual trades. It describes how the starting…
The guide distinguishes OctoBot’s historical portfolio profitability from its historical profit and loss (P&L). Portfolio profitability values configured tradable assets in a selected reference market, then compares the total value of current holdings with…
The document describes OctoBot’s exchange connectivity and distinguishes officially supported venues from community-tested ones. It says OctoBot connects through the CCXT library, so other CCXT-listed exchanges may work in principle, but only official and…
This French-language guide explains how to run several automated crypto strategies or asset baskets through OctoBot Cloud. Its key operating rule is to assign only one strategy or basket to each exchange portfolio, which is intended to prevent strategies…
This French guide explains how to access OctoBot cloud strategies from an OctoBot trading bot, starting with version 1.0.4. Users can find the strategies in the bot’s Community tab and use them in either simulated or live trading. The guide describes…
This guide explains how an exchange API key lets trading software interact with a cryptocurrency account without using the account’s email address or login password. In the OctoBot example, the key is used to read wallet balances and to view, place, and…
This introductory guide compares market, limit, stop, and take-profit orders for cryptocurrency trading. A market order seeks the best available price and usually prioritizes execution, while a limit order specifies the price at which a trader is willing to…
This guide explains how to configure OctoBot’s GPT interface and evaluator to use a language model for trading-related predictions. It covers adding an API credential for the hosted service, setting a custom LLM base address for another compatible server,…
This introductory article explains cryptocurrency futures as contracts used to gain exposure to expected price movements without directly holding the underlying coins. It outlines long and short positioning, noting that short sellers aim to buy back at a…
This introductory post explains cryptocurrency trading and presents general reasons a trader might use an automated trading bot. It describes bots as tools that can execute preset rules continuously, which may reduce the influence of fear or greed and free a…
This explainer describes exchange API keys as credentials that let trading software interact with a cryptocurrency account without using the account email address or password. The stated bot functions include reading portfolio balances and retrieving,…
This guide surveys ten cryptocurrency trading bot platforms, describing their strategy types, free-plan restrictions, and usability. It introduces bots as software that connects to exchanges and executes predefined rules, then compares offerings that include…
This guide explains how to obtain exchange history for OctoBot Script backtests and how to reuse previously downloaded data. The fetch request is configured with a trading pair and candle interval, with optional settings for the starting timestamp, exchange,…