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
The document explains how OctoBot can act on buy and sell signals from TradingView indicators or strategies. Alerts sent through a webhook can prompt the bot to create corresponding simulated or live orders on a supported exchange. Signals may also include…
The document introduces Bitcoin's unspent transaction output model and contrasts it with account-based balance tracking. A wallet's spendable funds consist of previously created outputs. To make a payment, it selects one or more outputs as inputs, consumes…
This commentary presents a framework for crypto volatility trading that stresses timing and carrying costs over the simple idea of selling volatility whenever it appears historically high. It describes realized volatility as mean reverting, while warning…
This primer explains three common crypto market data formats and the questions each can answer. A ticker summarizes current price, top bid and ask, recent volume, price change, and range, making it useful for broad scans and cross-market comparisons. An…
This integration guide describes a Rust and Python adapter for connecting NautilusTrader to Coinbase Advanced Trade. It covers live market data and order execution for spot products and Coinbase Financial Markets derivatives, including perpetual swaps and…
This webinar recap summarizes Q2 2023 analysis of crypto options, focusing on how spot price moves relate to implied volatility, how option trade direction can be inferred, and how Bitcoin’s volatility risk premium compares with realized volatility. It…
The document describes reducing directional exposure in a crypto spot portfolio by shorting perpetual futures. A short position with notional value matching the spot holding is presented as an approximately delta-neutral hedge: losses in spot may be offset…
The document presents five basic practices for controlling risk in cryptocurrency trading: keep position size appropriate to one's experience and comfort, limit leverage, cap planned loss on an idea using a 2% capital rule, place a stop loss, and favor…
The article reviews how a crypto perpetual-futures funding strategy changed as more traders adopted it. It describes lower positive premiums, less extreme negative premiums during declines, faster-moving entry opportunities that increase slippage, and…
The article explains how liquid staking lets ETH holders stake through a provider and receive liquid staking tokens that represent deposited ETH and accrued rewards, net of fees. Those tokens can remain usable in trading, lending, and other DeFi activities.…
The release notes describe an update to Hummingbot’s hedge strategy. It can hedge multiple assets across multiple exchanges, size hedges by asset amount or quote-currency value, and use either spot or perpetual markets for monitored and hedge legs. The notes…
This guide explains how investors can explore themed cryptocurrency baskets and ready-made trading strategies on a cloud trading platform. Baskets group cryptocurrencies by a shared theme, such as market capitalization, so users can select a group without…
This connector guide explains how to prepare an Osmosis wallet, connect it to Hummingbot Gateway, and launch supported automated market-making strategies. It covers wallet funding, private-key export, mainnet or testnet connection, balance checks, token…
The document explains how Hyperliquid handles transaction nonces for API wallets, also called agent wallets, and why its scheme differs from Ethereum’s sequential nonce model. Hyperliquid retains the 100 highest nonces per signer, accepts only unused values…
This guide explains how to connect OctoBot to Reddit and configure it to monitor selected subreddits for traded cryptocurrencies. When its forum evaluator is enabled, the bot analyzes post sentiment with VADER and produces a coin-level summary for use by a…
The article describes why institutions entering digital assets may struggle to recruit blockchain specialists. It attributes the limited talent pool to the technology’s relative novelty, the absence of long-established training pipelines, and the specialized…
The document defines the account value and profit-and-loss measures displayed in Hyperliquid portfolio graphs. Account value combines unrealized profit or loss on cross-margin and isolated-margin positions with vault balances. P&L adjusts account value for…
OctoBot is presented as an open-source cryptocurrency automation platform with a graphical interface. It supports configurable approaches such as grids, dollar-cost averaging, and crypto baskets, along with external signal connections, social indicators, and…
The article explains how institutions can use crypto ETF holdings data to monitor capital allocation, investor behavior, liquidity, and portfolio risk. It highlights assets under management, largest holdings, inflows and outflows, historical returns, and…
This article explains how leveraged crypto positions can be forcibly closed when margin falls below maintenance requirements. Forced sales from long liquidations can push prices lower and trigger further liquidations, while short liquidations can create…
The guide introduces Condor, an open-source harness that links language-model-driven trading agents to deterministic execution through the Hummingbot API. It describes a setup wizard, the choice between Telegram and local dashboard access, required API…
This tutorial introduces visual strategy construction through examples involving price changes, volume expansion, gaps, moving averages, MACD, and KDJ. Its main worked strategy applies threshold rebalancing between cash and Bitcoin: compare the market value…
This newsletter reviews a sharp market sell-off through several proposed catalysts: Middle East tensions, the Bank of Japan’s rate increase, weaker-than-expected US employment data, and a cautious Federal Reserve. It discusses the yen’s rally and Japanese…
The document describes a chart for comparing options trading volume executed on screen with volume executed through block trades. Its purpose is to help users assess which execution channel is contributing to market participation. It notes that large…