ccxt-trading-cp

Console Cryptocoin Trading CP based on CCXT

This tool provides simple UI wrapper around some functionality from an amazing CCXT library

What can it do?

This tool provides console UI to:

• show balances of multiple exchanges
• fetch info about coins (price, volume, change, etc.)
• place orders (BUY, SELL)
• cancel open orders
• give overview about portfolio on various exchanges
• show possible profit from buying/selling on different exchanges
• show possible profit from buying/selling with different bases (e.g. XRP/BTC then XRP/ETH then ETH/BTC)
• show coinmarketcap.com data
• show how much of the market cap you own in ppm (per million - like percent, but 1 ppm = 1/1,000,000th of a thing)
• encrypt your API keys and secrets

Disclaimer

This tool is published with 0 liability. By using it, you accept the possibility that an order will be placed incorrectly, that you will sell what you didnt mean to sell and even that you may lose money by withdrawing into somebody else's or non-existing wallet.

That being said, I hope this will not happen. I made this tool for myself and I am glad to share it, but I reject any liability whatsoever for wrong API commands being sent. I recommend to set IP whitelist and disable API withdrawal until you read the whole code of ccxt, this package and all the 100+ packages these 2 reference and require. Never trust somebody else with your API keys/secret.

Getting Started

Installation is straight forward and requires getting copy of ccxt-trading-cp, installing modules it depends on and modifying config.json file

Prerequisites

You will need Nodejs 7.6+ and NPM.

Installing

The easiest way is from ccxt-trading-cp in NPM

npm install ccxt-trading-cp

After that edit config.default.json file and save it as config.json file in project root folder.

mv config.default.json config.json && nano config.json

This is a config JSON file where you have to provide API keys and secrets. Place all these into exchanges_unencrypted array, every item is an object which has:

• exchange - id of exchange from ccxt package
• apiKey - your exchange API key
• apiSecret - your exchange API secret
• [inactive] - if set and equal to 1, then exchange is not used in scripts (useful if you don't want to delete it, just inactivate it for some time)
• [debug] - if set and equal to 1, then exchange will work in verbose mode

{
  "exchanges_unencrypted": [
    {
      "exchange": "binance",
      "apiKey": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
      "apiSecret": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
    },
    {
      "exchange": "bittrex",
      "inactive": 1,
      "apiKey": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
      "apiSecret": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
    },
  ],
  "exchange_for_fiat": "okcoinusd"
}

There is also exchange_for_fiat property which is used only for fetching BTC/USD OCHLV chart and USD price of BTC.

Every time you add new exchange, insert it inside exchanges_unencrypted array. ccxt-trading-cp has ability to encrypt API key/secret credentials, but this can be done only from inside the app. First time you must enter it in plaintext and then select the option to encrypt config file from within the main menu.

Never modify exchanges_encrypted property.

Command line args

I suggest making file executable and running it as:

./tradingcp.js [ARGUMENTS]

Note that exchange option is taken as default, so you can use

./tradingcp.js [ARGUMENTS] ETH

to show ETH/BTC exchange section.

Options

• -q, --quote QUOTE - This defines quote for markets (we trade in this currency) [Default: BTC]
• -b, --balance - Go to balance overview (show how much of what I have on all exchanges and its BTC value)
• -c, --currency CURRENCY - Currency for coin market cap (USD, EUR, CNY,...). Default is USD
• --crossstock - Go to cross-stock analysis (can I buy coin on one exchange and sell on another one?)
• --crosscurrency - Go to cross-currency analysis (can I buy coin for BTC, then sell it for ETH then sell ETH for BTC and make profit?)
• --btcusd - Show BTC / USD price
• -p, --password PASSWORD - Pre-fill config password in command line
• -e, --exchange COIN - Load exchange details about given coin

Tested exchanges

I myself am using the following exchanges without any issues

• Bibox
• Binance
• Bitfinex
• Bittrex
• Cryptopia
• HitBTC (API v2)
• Kucoin
• OKEX
• Poloniex

in theory it should work with many others, but I have not tested them. Some exchanges are limited in API possibilities, so they are just not suitable for this CP.

CCXT exchange module requirements

In order for exchange to work, CCXT exchange module must support:

• fetchTickers()
• fetchOpenOrders()
• createOrder()
• cancelOrder()
• fetchBalance()

Optionally fetchOCHLV() function is useful to show some simple charts.

Contributing

for now I have no special contribution rules, if you have any interesting changes, feel free to open issue or submit pull request.

Versioning

I pretty much make up version numbers as I want to for now.

Authors

• michnovka - thats me

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• All hail ccxt
• Very useful toolset for terminal interaction terminal-kit
• Nice toolset for working with command line arguments command-line-args
• I had to modify terminal-table to correctly show tables with UTF-16 symbols (for currencies)
• Thanks everybody else whose code I include in this project. Check package.json for more information