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.
19,452 documents
This document explains how to connect to BitMEX through Lumibot’s CCXT broker interface using an explicit exchange configuration and API credentials. It notes that BitMEX is not among the globally auto-detected credential paths, and identifies the exchange…
The article presents developments in 2021 as signs that cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, were gaining acceptance as an investment asset and payment method. It points to Tesla’s Bitcoin purchase, banks exploring custody, payment firms adding digital…
This market commentary surveys crypto conditions around the period following Ethereum’s Shapella upgrade. It describes a permit-signature scam risk: gasless token approvals can look like ordinary wallet signatures, making it difficult for users to recognize…
This script builds a universe of Binance futures contracts using 24-hour ticker data and exchange metadata. It joins weighted average price and quote volume with contract onboarding date, price tick size, and order quantity constraints. It then excludes…
This digital-asset market snapshot examines a broad selloff across Bitcoin, Ether, and altcoins through price changes, volatility, trading volume, open interest, funding, ETF and stablecoin flows, order-book depth, spreads, and DeFi liquidations. Its central…
The document reports a backtest of a Donchian strategy on Binance BTC-USDT six-hour candles spanning January 2019 to January 2021. It records 18 closed trades and one still-open position. The reported net profit was 45,194.35 from a starting balance of…
This personal account reflects on years of involvement in cryptocurrency markets, including altcoins, leveraged trading, decentralized finance schemes, and token mining promotions. Its main lesson is caution: the author describes a market where inexperienced…
This weekly market commentary reviews Bitcoin and Ethereum options ahead of US inflation releases and other macro events. It compares realized and implied volatility with historical ranges, examines the relative volatility of ETH and BTC, and discusses…
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 podcast recap explains how real-world assets can be represented on blockchains, with examples including real estate, commodities, stablecoins, and Treasury-backed products. It presents tokenization as a way to broaden access, improve transferability,…
The commentary considers how trade war headlines and scheduled US economic releases could affect crypto prices and options volatility. Its base case is that Bitcoin remains in a broad consolidation range, with a possible test of the lower boundary and a…
The document explains how cryptocurrency traders can use automated triggers to adapt buying behavior to market conditions. Its trend example uses a fast 10-period EMA and a slow 20-period EMA on a daily chart: a bullish signal enables buying, while a bearish…
The primer explains how Curve developed from a stablecoin-focused automated market maker into a broader DeFi ecosystem. It contrasts Curve’s dynamic invariant with constant-product pricing: the curve is flatter when a pool is balanced to reduce slippage,…
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…
This article argues that grid trading can move beyond small gains by improving how the strategy handles falling markets. It describes combining suitable instrument selection, portfolio construction, dynamic grid placement, and position management to address…
This platform guide describes how to select and trade cryptocurrency options through a common trading interface. It outlines contract selection, market-data retrieval, order placement and cancellation, and position queries for Deribit and OKX. It also lists…
This weekly report examines Bitcoin and Ether options around regulatory news and a busy US macro calendar. It describes short-dated implied volatility rising after enforcement actions, a brief move into backwardation, and a flatter term structure afterward.…
This example builds a BTCUSDT futures market-making strategy whose fair price is estimated from a spot reference price plus a smoothed spot–futures basis. It resamples spot and futures book-ticker mid-prices, carries observations forward, and calculates a…
The document describes a backtesting feature for BitMEX’s XBTUSD perpetual contract that simulates periodic funding payments using historical funding-rate data. It says the feature is available across JavaScript, C++, and Python, and that event logging can…
This tutorial introduces the M Language used in a trading platform to write indicators and trading logic for commodity futures and cryptocurrency contracts. It explains scalar and sequence data, numeric, string, and Boolean values, variable naming, and…
The note links uncertainty after a US government shutdown to crypto risk and options pricing. It argues that missing October inflation and employment releases complicate the Federal Reserve’s December decision, while the FOMC minutes and other scheduled…
This product guide describes a strategy-design workflow for OctoBot. It separates strategy review from creation: the viewer presents performance metrics and trade details for analyzing and comparing runs, while the creator walks users through market…
The document introduces tokenized equities as blockchain-based tokens representing traditional shares, exchange-traded funds, or other investments. It describes fractional ownership and broader geographic access as potential benefits, and says smart…
This introductory guide explains how to mark support and resistance zones on cryptocurrency charts and inspect technical indicators in TradingView. It recommends locating recent price highs and lows, treating levels associated with heavier volume as…