The most valuable commodity I know of is information.
-Gordon Gekko
Gekko is a Bitcoin trading bot and backtesting platform that connects to popular Bitcoin exchanges. It is written in javascript and runs on nodejs.
Use Gekko at your own risk.
- Automated trading (trade bot)
- Paper trading (for TA strategies)
- Backtester (for TA strategies)
- Tool for systematic trading
- Low level market library
- Monitor the live market
- Import historical market data
- Broadcast market data over pubsub messaging systems
Gekko comes with some basic strategies (which implement a single indicator). But with some basic javascript you can create your own strategies. You can use over 130 indicators to create your perfect prediction model (full list of supported indicators). Why don't you combine Bollinger Bands, CCI and MACD with a STOCHRSI indicator?
Gekko can watch the realtime markets, you can apply automated trading methods to do live or simulated trading (automated trading or paper trading). Gekko stores all market data it sees, this makes it possible to simulate trading strategies against historical data to see whether they would have been profitable (backtesting).
Gekko is not built for HFT or anything related to being the fastest (like arbitrage). The trading methods Gekko can do are based on TA indicators used by human day traders. This means that Gekko does not look at data below the one minute timescale and will not trade more than a couple of times per week (depending on configuration).
So Gekko is not:
- A trading platform for human day traders with a GUI and charts.
- A High frequency trading bot designed to operate on < minute resolution.
- A fully automated trading bot that you turn on and will generate profit without you having to do anything.
- An exchange.
- An arbitrage bot.
| Exchange | Monitoring | Trading | Importing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poloniex | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| BTCC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | (=BTCChina) |
| Bitstamp | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| Kraken | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| Bitfinex | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| BTC-e | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| Okcoin.cn | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | (China, see #352) |
| Cex.io | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| BTC Markets | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| bitX | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| lakeBTC | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| meXBT | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | see here. |
| zaif | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| lakeBTC | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| bx.in.th | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Monitoring means that Gekko is able to watch the realtime market and thus also:
- Run trading strategies against the data (in semi-realtime)
- Simulate trading profits (paper trader)
- Store all data (to backtest in the future)
Windows user? Here is a step-by-step guide on how to get Gekko running on Windows.
Gekko runs on nodejs, once you have that installed you can either download all files in a zip or clone the repository via git:
git clone git://github.com/askmike/gekko.git
cd gekko
You need to download Gekko's dependencies, which can easily be done with npm (this came with your nodejs installation):
npm install
Docker user? Installing and running gekko is simple on Docker with the following command:
docker run -d -v /path/to/your/config.js:/usr/src/gekko/config.js --name gekko barnumd/gekko`
To see process logs: docker logs --follow gekko. More info can be found here.
Configuring Gekko consists of two parts:
- Watching a realtime market
- Enabling plugins
Read the configuring Gekko documentation for a detailed explanation. Don't forget to rename a copy of sample-config.js to config.js.
node gekko
For backtesting, please see the backtesting documentation.
You can also run Gekko silently or use more complex features, for examples check out the advanced features.
If you installed Gekko via git you can easily fetch the latest updates by running:
git pull && npm install
- Read about Gekko's overall architecture.
- Read on how to add a new exchange to Gekko.
- Read on how to create your own plugin.
- Implement your own trading method and share it back.
- Stabilize importing API.
- More tests
- Better documentation for TA-lib indicators.
- More indicators (maybe use this native js lib?)
- Webbased interface (first step)?
Better exchange support:
- add GDAX exchange (supports importing)
- support importing at bitfinex (here).
- add okcoin China
- add okcoin
- add bitmex
- fix cryptsy integration..
- The title is inspired by Bateman.
- This project is inspired by the GoxTradingBot Chrome plugin (which in turn is inspired by Goomboo's journal).
If Gekko helped you in any way, you can always leave me a tip at (BTC) 13r1jyivitShUiv9FJvjLH7Nh1ZZptumwW
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Copyright (c) 2014 Mike van Rossum mike@mvr.me
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