freqtrade deployment

Configuration of the freqtrade trading bot using balena for the deployment and running on a raspberry pi.

• Freqtrade: https://www.freqtrade.io/
• Balena: https://www.balena.io/
• Raspberry pi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/

Setup

A binance, telegram, balena and github accounts are required to setup this deployment.

Binance

• Create an account on binance
• Generate an API key and secret, save it for later

Telegram

• Follow the freqtrade instructions to create a telegram bot and obtain your chat id: https://www.freqtrade.io/en/latest/telegram-usage/

Balena

• Create an account on balena
• Create an application and add a device to it
• Use balenaEtcher to flash on a micro sd the image downloaded from balena
• Plug in a raspberry pi with the micro sd and check if it appears as online on balena dashboard
• Obtain a balena API key on "Preferences > Access Tokens" and save it for later
• Add the folowing environment variables to your application
  • EXCHANGE_KEY (your binance api key)
  • EXCHANGE_SECRET (your binance api secret)
  • TELEGRAM_TOKEN (your telegram token)
  • TELEGRAM_TOKEN_2 (another telegram token if you want to run 2 bots)
  • TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID (your telegram chat id)

Github

• Fork this github project
• Add the folowing secrets to the repository on "Settings > Secrets"
  • BALENA_API_TOKEN (your balena api key)
  • BALENA_APPLICATION_NAME (the name of the application you have created on balena)
• Modify configs and strategies to adjust to your preferences