Quote from: notme on April 11, 2012, 03:14:55 AM

Quote from: mem on April 11, 2012, 03:13:26 AM

Quote from: AndDuffy on March 27, 2012, 10:06:09 PM

Maybe this is the wrong section, but I think you guys can help me here. I want to make a trading bot that will execute trades based on parameters I set according to technical indicators. Thing is, I have almost zero experience with coding. I don't just want to use someone else's code though, I want to build this from scratch, using custom and unique indicators. Is there any resource that I could use that would teach me how to go about creating and implementing this bot?

TL;DR Noob coder needs help building trading bot.

I have already written one, its called bitperl.pl but atm is a private only release.

On a good day it earns 0.7% of capital.

What about a bad day?

The worst Ive seen is it flat line waiting to sell coins for 4 days (back when he had a good sized slump to 4.60). Once the price came back to normal it resumed its micro trading.

Currently supports:

Simulations
Uploads charts output of: profit ph, profit total, buy, sell, target, target break even. Example:
Logs historical Data. (for simulations)
The most basic buy low sell high algorithm (more coming).
Forcing a sell/buy remotely.
tweets changes and transactions: https://twitter.com/#!/bitperl
Factors MTGOX transaction charges

Todo:

Nicer web UI
modular trading algo's

Good luck with your trading bot

My advice is thread or daemonize everything to avoid any lag between transactions and mtgox live price.
I used to have everything pushed into a single loop - was easy to follow but a simple tweet was enough to miss a good price.