Crypto Strategy Types, Exchange APIs, and Robust Script Practices
Summary
This beginner guide surveys common crypto strategy categories, including arbitrage and hedging, trend following, grid style reversion, and high frequency approaches. It also distinguishes strategies by design, such as single or multiple instruments, accounts, and logic sets. The article explains public exchange endpoints for market data and private endpoints for account information and trading actions, noting that calls which reach the exchange are subject to rate limits.
Practical sections cover handling failed or empty API responses, understanding spot market buy quantity conventions, matching futures order direction settings with opening or closing actions, and distinguishing status displays from persistent logs. It also introduces indicator calculations from candlestick data, explaining that a series needs enough bars for a valid value and that the current unfinished bar can change along with its indicators. The examples are platform specific, and the article offers implementation guidance rather than performance evidence; exchange conventions and minimum order rules may vary.
Key ideas
- Crypto strategies can be grouped by trading logic or by the instruments, accounts, and logic they manage.
- Public endpoints generally provide market data, while private endpoints access account data and perform trading actions.
- Strategies should validate API responses before reading fields or using the data to make decisions.
- Futures orders require direction settings that match the intended opening or closing action.
- Technical indicators require enough input bars, and values based on the current unfinished bar can change.
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