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.
21 documents
This guide explains a dollar-cost averaging trading mode for placing repeat entries and managing the resulting positions. Entries can be triggered on a schedule or when an evaluator produces a new maximum signal, defined as a value of -1 or 1. The guide says…
OctoBot profiles determine which strategies and evaluators run, which cryptocurrencies and trading pairs are considered, which exchanges are enabled, and whether trading uses spot or futures. The guide explains how to edit strategy settings through the…
This guide explains how to create market, limit, stop-loss, and trailing-market orders with OctoBot Script. It describes order sizing for spot and futures trading, including fixed asset amounts, percentages of portfolio value, and percentages of available…
This release note describes new features and fixes in OctoBot 1.0.4. Users can download strategies from OctoBot Cloud into a self-hosted bot, then configure them for different exchanges or assets and use the platform’s backtesting or strategy design tools to…
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 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,…
This guide describes order-size expressions in OctoBot, grouping them into fixed, portfolio-scaled, and variable amounts. Fixed amounts specify a quantity in the base asset or a value in the quote asset. Scaled amounts can reference holdings associated with…
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 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 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…
OctoBot’s Dip Analyser trading mode is designed to enter near local bottoms and exit through multiple take profit orders. The document describes it as similar to an evaluator-driven dollar-cost averaging mode, with support for spot and futures markets.…
The article introduces cryptocurrency futures as contracts used to gain exposure to expected price moves without directly holding the underlying coins. It describes taking long positions when anticipating a rise and short positions when expecting a decline,…
This guide explains how to create orders through a Python trading interface. It covers market, limit, stop-loss, and trailing-market order types; order size can be specified as a fixed amount, a share of total portfolio value, or a share of available…
The document describes an OctoBot trading mode that turns alerts from TradingView indicators or Pine Script strategies into orders on connected exchanges. It outlines supported order actions, including market and limit orders, creating or cancelling buy and…
This guide explains how to configure an OctoBot trading profile. It covers selecting trading modes and evaluators, choosing cryptocurrencies and pairs, enabling exchanges, and setting spot or futures trading. Users can edit supported strategy settings…
This OctoBot FAQ explains several behaviors relevant to automated trading and simulation. Before sending an order, the bot checks exchange size and other order limits; signals may therefore produce no order, commonly when the required asset balance is…
This guide describes a TradingView Trading Mode for automating exchange orders from alerts emitted by TradingView indicators or Pine Script strategies. It says the mode can create and cancel market, limit, and stop orders, including straightforward entries…
The document explains how OctoBot supports automated futures trading through several trading modes: DCA, Dip Analyser, TradingView, and Daily. It names Binance, Bybit, and Kucoin as supported exchanges, with regional and account limitations for some venues.…
This OctoBot guide outlines how to configure automated futures trading. It lists supported trading modes: DCA, Dip Analyser, TradingView, and Daily. It names Binance, Bybit, and Kucoin as supported futures exchanges. A profile's leverage setting is adjusted…