OctoBot 1.0.1

Octobot Community

Launch of the new OctoBot cloud

The OctoBot team is proud to announce the launch of the new octobot.cloud where 90% of trading strategies can be automated in a very easy way and for free.

We are looking forward to receiving your feedback on our new OctoBot based system.

What is Octobot ?

    

Octobot is a powerful open-source cryptocurrency trading robot.

OctoBot is highly customizable using its configuration and tentacles system.
You can build your own bot using the infinite configuration possibilities such as technical analysis, social media processing or even external statistics management like google trends.

OctoBot is AI ready: Python being the main language for OctoBot, it's easy to integrate machine-learning libraries such as Tensorflow or any other libraries and take advantage of all the available data and create a very powerful trading strategy.

Octobot's main feature is evolution, you can :

• Share your configurations with other octobot users.
• Install, modify and even create new tentacles to build your ideal cryptocurrency trading robot.
• Contribute to improve OctoBot core repositories and tentacles.

Looking for more info ? Check out our Octobot guides at octobot.info

Installation

OctoBot's installation is very simple, you can either:

• Deploy your OctoBot on OctoBot Cloud. With OctoBot cloud, experience hassle-free installation, updates, and maintenance - leave it all to us! Your robot will also benefit from cloud only features.

• Download and install OctoBot on your computer or server and enjoy all features for free.

• Install OctoBot using docker.

  Docker install in one line summary:

  docker run -itd --name OctoBot -p 80:5001 -v $(pwd)/user:/octobot/user -v $(pwd)/tentacles:/octobot/tentacles -v $(pwd)/logs:/octobot/logs drakkarsoftware/octobot:stable
  

  Your OctoBot will be accessible on http://localhost.

Exchanges

Octobot supports many exchanges thanks to the ccxt library. To activate trading on an exchange, just configure OctoBot with your API keys as described on the exchange documentation.

Paper trading

To trade on any exchange, just enable the exchange in your OctoBot. This you to trade with simulated money on this exchange.

No exchange credential is required.

Real trading

To use your real exchange account with OctoBot, enter your exchange API keys as described on the exchange documentation.

Testing trading strategies

OctoBot comes with its builtin backtesting engine which enables you to trade with simulated money using historical exchange data.

Backtesting will give you accurate insights on the past performance and behavior of strategies using OctoBot.

Contribute from a browser IDE

Make changes and contribute to OctoBot in a single click with an already setup and ready to code developer environment using Gitpod !

Hardware requirements

• CPU : 1 Core / 1GHz
• RAM : 250 MB
• Disk : 1 GB

Disclaimer

Do not risk money which you are afraid to lose. USE THE SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHORS AND ALL AFFILIATES ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR TRADING RESULTS.

Always start by running a trading bot in simulation mode and do not engage money before you understand how it works and what profit/loss you should expect.

Please feel free to read the source code and understand the mechanism of this bot.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

See LICENSE to see the full text.

Sponsors

JetBrains with PyCharm Pro.
Special thanks to DigitalOcean for hosting OctoBot's open source tentacles and community websites.