bluebot/docs/commandline/tradebot.md

A bitcoin trading bot for auto trading at various exchanges

# Tradebot

You can set BlueBot up as a tradebot, this will instruct BlueBot to:

- Watch a live market.
- Run a strategy (in semi-realtime) over live market data.
- Automatically create buy/sell orders based on signals coming from the strategy.

*As with everything in BlueBot, the tradebot will make decisions based on the by YOU selected/configured/created strategy. If you end up losing money you have no one to blame but yourself.*

## Configuration

First set up BlueBot for commandline usage (see [this document](./about_the_commandline.md) for details). After that configure the following plugins:

- `config.watch` - the market to trade on.
- `candleWriter` - (optional) also store market data to disk.
- `tradingAdvisor` - configure the strategy and candle properties.
- `trader` - configure BlueBot access to your exchange account.

Turn off the paperTrader (to not get conflicting profit reports).

Once done run BlueBot in live mode.