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Technical-Trading-Bot

Trading Bot built using the Alpaca API in Python. Indicators used for Signal Generation: EMA, StochRSI, and Stochastic Oscillator

AUTH

  1. configFile.txt: To enable/disable the indicators for which the bot will check and generate buy/sell signals. Other parameters such as:
  • Trade Params: % Capital to be used / trade, Stop Loss, Trailing Stop, Limit Price, etc can be changed.
  • Data Params: Timeframe, Start Date, End Date
  • Indicator Params: Indicator parameters can also be changed in the ConfigFile.txt.
    1. StochRSI: Lower Band, Upper Band, K, D, RSI Length, etc)
    2. Stoch: Lower Band, Upper Band, K Smoothing, D Smoothing
    3. EMA: Period, Smoothing
  1. Tickers.txt: Add ticker symbols (seperated by space) to check the critera for
  2. authAlpaca.txt: Add Alpaca API Key and Secret Key for the bot to start trading. Change "BASE-URL" to "api.alpaca.markets" to trade in real-time markets.

Root Dir

  1. config_params.py: Initializes all the params set by the user in ConfigFile.txt
  2. indicator.py: Calculates values and generates signals for all the indicators enabled
  3. main.py: Signal generation, decision-making, trade execution, trade monitoring, email alerts

After the bot starts checking for the buy/sell criteria and places the first trade, there will be 3 new files created in the ORDERS folder.

  1. Orders.csv: CSV file with all the trades (buy and sell both) placed by the bot
  2. Open Orders.csv: CSV file with all the open positions held by the bot. The bot will check for returns using this file and sell once the sell criteria (Stop Loss/Limit Price/Trailing Stop) has been met. The bot will remove the position from Open Orders.csv once it's closed.
  3. Time and Coins.csv: Using this file, the bot will ensure that no 2 (or more) trades are placed for the same ticker in the sleep_time_between_trades (parameter in ConfigFile.txt) time period. Example: If sleep_time_between_trades is 100 seconds and the bot places a buy trade for ETHUSD, the bot won't check the criteria for ETHUSD for another 100 seconds.

Feel free to contact me at tejas.linge101@gmail.com for ANY doubts, suggestions, reviews, or to just connect and talk about Algo Trading Projects. Thanks!