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.
3,101 documents
The article explains how an OctoBot user can subscribe to a community strategy, import its profile, and configure a bot to follow the strategy’s trading signals. Followers receive signals when the source bot creates or cancels orders, and their order amounts…
This connector guide explains how Hummingbot connects to Hyperliquid's central limit order book for spot and perpetual markets. Both connectors use WebSocket connections and support limit, maker-limit, and market orders; the perpetual connector supports…
HODL is a crypto term for keeping an asset through market swings, commonly expanded as “hold on for dear life.” The document traces the spelling to a Bitcoin forum post from December 2013, written during a price decline, and explains how the word grew into a…
The document describes a trade-copying setup in which one MetaTrader expert advisor exports order requests and another imports and executes them. The systems can run in the same terminal or separate terminals on the same computer. The importer can target a…
The document compares security and transparency measures at several centralized crypto exchanges, including cold storage, account authentication, withdrawal controls, audits, proof-of-reserves reporting, insurance arrangements, and regulatory status. It…
The document explains how to connect TradingView alerts to an FMZ Quant bot using the platform’s extended API. It describes creating an API key with only the command permission needed, then configuring an alert webhook to call the bot’s command interface…
The document presents a dynamic-balance strategy for a crypto and fiat account. It compares the marked value of the coin holdings with the fiat balance, using bid and ask prices adjusted by a spread parameter. When the coin side is valued above the fiat…
This tutorial develops a market-making approach that estimates a futures contract’s fair price from spot-market returns. Its basic arbitrage pricing theory relationship assumes futures and spot returns move one-for-one with no intercept; the strategy uses…
This article reviews US legislative proposals that could place much of the digital asset market under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It describes bills proposing CFTC oversight of spot digital commodity exchanges, intermediaries, stablecoin…
The document describes a cash-and-carry strategy for crypto perpetual futures. When a perpetual contract trades above spot and its funding rate is positive, the trader sells the perpetual and buys an equivalent amount of spot, aiming to collect funding…
This reference catalogs Binance Spot API error codes and messages, grouping them into general server or network problems, malformed requests, order failures, and exchange filter rejections. It covers issues such as invalid timestamps or signatures,…
This tutorial shows how to change the active cryptocurrency pair during a running trading program. It states that exchanges generally support runtime pair changes, with an exception for Huobi ETH because it uses a separate API address, and notes that the…
This FAQ explains operational limits and practical considerations for running the Freqtrade cryptocurrency trading bot. It describes supported spot and selected futures trading, short positions in futures when the strategy and configuration support them, and…
This weekly snapshot reviews crypto market conditions from March 19 to 26, 2024. It links Bitcoin’s recovery after an inflation-driven dip to persistent ETF demand and pre-halving accumulation, while noting uncertainty about demand after the halving and…
This analysis uses estimated institutional Bitcoin ETF cost bases to map how drawdowns could push holdings underwater and potentially amplify selling. It presents scenarios from current prices through a 30% decline, arguing that stress rises nonlinearly…
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…
The document discusses why a strategy's historical backtest may select different securities or rebalance on different dates than a submitted simulation. It describes cases where simulation begins between scheduled rebalances or after a rebalance close, and…
This market snapshot discusses the October 2023 Bitcoin rally alongside regulatory headlines, exchange activity, DeFi markets, lending, and network metrics. It cautions that reports of a spot ETF listing or approval rumors did not establish that an ETF had…
The article defines altcoins broadly as cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin and groups many of them into four categories: utility tokens, security tokens, non-fungible tokens, and stablecoins. Utility tokens can provide access to network services or…
This document describes Hummingbot’s Gemini spot connector, which connects to a centralized exchange order book through REST and WebSocket interfaces. It lists supported order types and gives basic steps for creating trading API credentials and connecting…
This draft presents a research framework for estimating short-horizon crypto prices from fixed-interval data. It resamples futures and spot mid-prices at 100-millisecond intervals, derives returns, and preprocesses order-book imbalance features. The proposed…
The document explains dollar-cost averaging (DCA): investing a fixed amount at regular intervals instead of committing the full investment at once. Because each contribution buys at the asset’s current price, the investor acquires more units when prices are…
This guide summarizes Brazilian tax reporting points for people holding or transacting in crypto assets. It states that the tax year runs from January through December and gives the following April’s last business day as the reporting deadline, with April 30…
This overview compares hardware, desktop, web, mobile, and paper wallets for storing cryptocurrency keys. It explains the central custody issue: control of private keys governs access to funds, so loss or theft of the keys can mean loss of access. Offline…