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
The guide explains how to run a strategy or crypto basket in paper trading through OctoBot cloud. A user starts trading from the selected strategy or basket, chooses paper trading, and sets the size of a virtual portfolio. The simulated bot follows the…
This introductory article defines a trading strategy as a plan specifying what to trade, when to enter and exit, and how much capital to risk. It says the plan should reflect the trader's goals and tolerance for losses, and describes technical analysis, risk…
The document explains how an OctoBot strategy owner can distribute crypto trading signals from a Telegram group. The setup involves adding OctoBot’s bot to the group with administrator access, retrieving the channel identifier, enabling the Telegram…
This guide explains how to format TradingView alert messages so OctoBot can create or cancel exchange orders. A minimal order alert identifies the exchange and symbol and gives a buy or sell signal. Optional fields specify market, limit, or stop order…
This guide explains how to route TradingView Pine Script strategy order events to OctoBot so that the bot can act on an exchange. It instructs users to define an alert message containing trade parameters, attach that message to strategy entry, exit, or close…
This promotional fireside-chat recap describes OctoBot’s use of AI to turn natural-language requests into crypto trading setups. Examples include selecting a crypto basket, creating a dollar-cost averaging plan, configuring a grid strategy, and generating a…
This guide explains how to configure OctoBot order sizes using fixed quantities, portfolio-scaled percentages, or amounts that change with available holdings. Fixed settings specify a base-asset quantity or a quote-currency value. Scaling settings allocate a…
The article explains self-custody trading bots as software run under the trader’s control, with exchange API credentials or wallet keys kept on the trader’s own device or server. It compares three approaches for centralized exchanges: built-in exchange bots,…
This overview compares ten cryptocurrency trading platforms by their automation styles, access models, and supporting tools. It describes grid trading within a defined price range, dollar-cost averaging, signal-driven systems, market making, and custom…
The document describes a crypto portfolio mode that allocates a reference-market balance across a configured set of coins. At startup or during scheduled checks, the system values holdings, compares their proportions with the index targets, and rebalances…
This article surveys ten cryptocurrency trading bot platforms and outlines the kinds of automation they offer. Features described include grid trading within a price range, dollar-cost averaging, signal-based trading, market making, technical-indicator…
The document explains how self-custody trading bots automate strategies while keeping exchange API keys or wallet credentials under the user's control. It compares three ways to automate centralized-exchange trading: exchange-hosted bots, third-party…
This overview describes OctoBot as an event-driven trading system built around asynchronous producer-consumer channels. Rather than relying on repeated polling loops, new data travels through channels to the components that need it, allowing evaluation to…
This guide explains how TradingView webhook alert messages can direct the open-source OctoBot to place or cancel exchange orders. A basic order alert identifies the exchange, symbol, and buy or sell signal. Optional fields specify order type, volume, price,…
This guide explains how a dollar-cost averaging trading mode can place entries on a schedule or in response to evaluator signals. Evaluator-triggered entries require a maximum signal value of -1 or 1; other values are ignored. Entry orders may be market or…
The article explains SAFU as Binance’s emergency fund intended to help protect users’ assets in extreme situations. It says the exchange established the fund in 2018 and allocated a portion of trading fees to it. The described holdings include BNB, Bitcoin,…
This guide explains how to route TradingView indicator alerts to OctoBot so the bot can act on incoming signals. The setup involves creating an alert in TradingView, configuring it to send a message to OctoBot's webhook, and defining the alert message in the…
This FAQ explains several operational details that affect automated trading and backtest interpretation. Before submitting an order, OctoBot checks exchange minimum and maximum requirements; signals may therefore produce no order, commonly because the…
This tutorial explains how to automate a moving-average crossover strategy for crypto using TradingView alerts and OctoBot. A short-period exponential moving average crossing above a longer-period EMA signals a buy; crossing below signals a sell. Its worked…
The document describes using a virtual portfolio to run crypto strategies or asset baskets under current market conditions without placing orders through a real exchange account. It outlines a basic setup: choose a strategy or basket, start trading in…
This guide explains how to connect TradingView indicator alerts to OctoBot so that alert signals can trigger automated trades on a connected exchange. The described setup involves creating an indicator alert, configuring OctoBot’s webhook as the destination,…
This introductory guide describes a workflow for building an automated cryptocurrency strategy with OctoBot Script. It explains reinforcement learning in broad terms: an agent interacts with a market environment, takes actions such as buying or selling, and…
The article introduces a visual tool for examining trading strategy backtests. It lets users inspect trades, futures positions, profit and loss, portfolio value, strategy settings, and other metrics over the course of a run. The emphasis is on seeing how a…
Dip Analyser is a trading mode for buying during local price dips and selling positions through multiple take-profit orders. It is presented as an advanced form of dollar-cost averaging that combines several evaluators. The mode supports spot and futures…