Auto-invest Bitvavo tool (DCA)

Bitvavo auto invest Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) Python script.

Features

• Providing orders in euro amount (ideal for DCA'ing)
• Easily change your configuration by adapting the config.yml file
• (Optional) Euro amount availability check before placing orders
• Support buy/sell market order
• Support buy/sell limit order with user predefined limit price
• Support buy/sell limit orded based on percentage of current market price (eg. limit price = current BTC price * defined percentage)
• Example setups provided for trigger: Linux Crontab, GitLab Pipeline or GitHub Actions

Virtual Python Env

Setup virtual environment:

python3 -m venv virtual_env

Activate:

source virtual_env/bin/activate

Install requirements

Requirements:

• Python3 + pip

Install the pip packages, by executing:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

Before you can start the script. You need to create an API key at Bitvavo and set the following two environment variables:

• API_KEY: Bitvavi API key
• API_SECRET: Bitvavi API secret

Start a single buy trade by executing manually: ./main.py

See Cronjob section below how you can configure a cronjob out of this.

Configure

You can adapt the settings in the config.yml file which is using YAML syntax, so NO source file changes are needed. Be sure you also set the API_KEY and API_SECRET environment variables mentioned above.

Note: See the full list of market pairs at Bitvavo, for example: BTC-EUR, ETH-EUR or ADA-EUR.

Cronjob

You can choice how you want to trigger this script! Built-in Linux Crontab? Using GitLab Pipelines or GitHub Actions?

Linux Crontab

Of course you can add a cronjob using cron under GNU/Linux. Execute crontab -e as your current user and add the following line to your cronjob:

12 15 * * 3 API_KEY=bitvavoapikey API_SECRET=bitvavoapisecret /usr/bin/python3 /location/path/to/main.py 

Note: Update the API_KEY, API_SECRET and set the correct path to the main.py script.
Note #2: Do not forget to run pip install -r requirements.txt from inside this repository as your current user, at least once.

GitLab Scheduled Pipelines

Or use the GitLab Scheduling Pipelines to execute the script in intervals (cronjob) on your request.
See the .gitlab-ci.yml file, which is getting executed using scheduling.

The secrets (API_KEY and API_SECRET) are passed as environment variables in GitLab pipelines.

GitHub Actions

You can also use GitHub Actions. The secrets (API_KEY and API_SECRET) can be set in GitHub repository secrets.

Add the github-action-trigger-trade.yml file to your GitHub forked repository, put this yaml file inside the .github/workflows directory.