Simple Commandline trading companion that uses the GDAX Trading Toolkit API.
- Place/Cancel Orders: Simple shorthand commands for placing market or limit buy and sell orders.
node trade b 0.5 l 12400
places a limit buy order for 0.5 BTC at $12,400
- Get the Price Ticker: Shows current price, big and ask as a visual indicator (SMA5) to show how fast the price is moving
node trade ticker
- See all current open orders
node trade orders ls
- Account Orders live feed: Get updates whenever a trade is placed, executed or canceled on your own account
node trade orders live
The simplest way is to npm install -g ts-node. Then just run the script directly using ts-node trade commmand [options].
If you want to run using node, you can npm install -g typescript and then run tsc in the same folder as the tsconfig.json file. This will generate trade.js in the build/ folder. Then just run node trade command [options].
Once you have the app running with either method you can type node trade --help to get a full list of available commands. You can also type node trade buy --help to see the options for a specific command.
In order to use any of the account specific featues such as listing open orders, you will need to be authenticated. The script looks for the following environment variables to authenticate with the GDAX API.
GDAX_KEY
GDAX_SECRET
GDAX_PASSPHRASE
Make sure these are set in your environment, or you can add a .env file to your root folder and the script will pull them from there instead.
Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml files are provided to automate the build process. Simply run docker build -t trader . to build the image and then docker-compose up to start the build. Essentially the first container installs yarn and downloads the dependencies, and the second container does the typescript precompile step.
If you don't want to build the image yourself you can also docker pull sfkiwi/trader:latest.
By default the docker container runs the live account orders feed and outputs order Messages to logs/orders.csv. If you want to run the container on a cloud provider such as Amazon the easiest way is to ssh into your instance and docker pull sfkiwi/trader:latest. Then run docker run -e "GDAX_KEY=<your key>" -e "GDAX_SECRET=<your secret>" -e "GDAX_PASSPHRASE=<your passphrase>" -v ~/:/app/logs sfkiwi/trader:latest. Insert your GDAX API credentials (leaving out the <> brackets). The -v option will mount the container's logs/ director to your host so that the orders.csv is not lost if the container is terminated.