Awesome
Automated Bitcoin and Ethereum trading bot
THIS BOT IS NOT MAINTAINED AND WILL BE REMOVED SOON
Use this alternative: Hascheksolutions Cryptotrader
Tutorial on https://blog.haschek.at/post/feb62
Features
- Uses the Coinbase API
- Works with USD or EUR/USD Wallets
- Works with Bitcoin or Ethereum
- Automatically buys when your desired BTC/ETH price is reached
- Automatically sells when your desired earnings are reached
- Stores buy/sell data in a local JSON file or on a Redis server
Requirements
- A Coinbase account
- Some money on your EUR/USD/USD Wallet on Coinbase
- Raspberry Pi or some Linux box
- php5 or up
- composer
- (Optional) A Rocket.Chat or Slack webhook which will inform you whenever BTC/ETH are sold or bought
Install
- Download the repo by using
git clone https://github.com/chrisiaut/phptrader.git
or download as ZIP file - Inside the Traderbot directory let composer install the dependencies:
composer install
- Rename example.config.inc.php to config.inc.php and fill in your data and wether you want to trade BTC or ETH
Upgrading
- Re-download or pull repo
- check example.config.inc.php for new settings and add them to your config.inc.php
- re-run
composer install
in the root directory to install new libraries
Usage
Command | Parameters | What does it do | Example |
---|---|---|---|
buy | [amount in EUR/USD] [earnings] | Buys the amount in EUR/USD and sells when the earnings are reached | buy 100 2 (Buy 100 EUR/USD and sell when the 100 are worth 2 more (102 EUR/USD)) |
sell | [amount in EUR/USD] [crypto price] | Adds a high sell order. Will sell amount when the crypto price is reached | sell 300 3000 (Sell 300 EUR/USD when 1 coin is worth 3000 EUR/USD) |
order | [amount in EUR/USD] [earnings] [BTC/ETH price] | Adds a low buy order. Will buy amount when BTC/ETH price is reached and will sell when earnings are reached | order 500 20 1000 (Buy 500 EUR/USD when 1 coin is worth 1000 EUR/USD and sell when 500 are worth 520 |
watchdog | -none- | Starts infinite loop where prices are checked and orders are bought/sold | |
list | -none- | Lists all open transactions with IDs | |
delete | transaction ID | Allows you to delete transactions | |
check | -none- | Checks prices and orders. Does what "watchdog" does but only once | |
report | -none- | Reports current status of all transactions to chat webhook | |
debug | -none- | Lists all your payment methods and wallets |
Start the watchdog
The heart of the bot is an infinite loop that checks periodically for price changes.
You can start it yourself or use the start.sh
script which will put the process in background and log to /var/log/phptrader.log
./start.sh