Octopus is a crypto trading bot I created for fun in 2018. It is managing my initial investment of 50€ on Coinbase.
\nA couple of years ago I made an extremely lucky investment in Ether, which allowed me to buy a VW T3 van with my girlfriend. A very instructive journey in terms of trading, psychology and finance!
\nI had some spare time in 2018 and wanted to get practice in interacting with external APIs. I still had a Coinbase account and they have a very friendly API documentation, so this seemed like an interesting challenge.
\nOctopus has been trading ever since…
\nA friend thought this was fun too and threw in 50€. If Octopus is successful we’ll go on holiday!
\nNote: I’m working on a little page to visualize the trading history and check how the bot is doing…
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\nThe trading strategy tries to take advantage of market volatility by following simple rebalancing principles.
\nI haven’t made the repository public for security issues.
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