On: Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScript

[dcsan]

This is dangerous haha!

It seems the price coming back from cryptonator doesn't update, TUSD is a stable coin but surely the bitcoin rate against it should be updating every 30s ? https://api.cryptonator.com/api/ticker/btc-tusd

https://www.cryptonator.com/api/ > Prices are updated every 30 seconds

[joosters → dcsan]

It also seems exceptionally risky to grab a price off some random website and then trade blindly on another. Shouldn't you be getting the prices from the market you are actually trading in?

[thomasfromcdnjs → joosters]

You are correct, the code is more of a tutorial, it should have error prevention.

I made it pull from a third party global average because an individual market can shift a lot depending on how volatile it is.

[jacksnipe → thomasfromcdnjs]

Wouldn’t you want your trading bot to have access to that volatility?!

[dcsan → dcsan]

my point is the API above doesn't seem to update much at all. Maybe every 30 minutes?

https://apiv2.bitcoinaverage.com/#price-data this seems like a better free API, wondering what others use? is there anything with tickdata not just 15s?