Wolfinch is your friendly trader Bot written in Python

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Wolfinch

Wolfinch is a trading bot implemented in Python. It supports algorithmic trading for equity market and cryptocurrency exchanges. The modularized implementation is easily extensible to support more exchanges, trading strategies and indicators. A simple UI is available out of the box to view trades and allow basic controls in operation.

Features include :

  • Auto / Manual Trading Modes
  • Multiple decision engines
  • YAML based rich configuration file support - Tons of nuts and bolts to customize
  • Out of the box UI availability
  • Pluggable Strategies
  • Pluggable Indicators
  • Pluggable Exchanges
  • Backtesting support
  • Paper trading (Simulation) mode
  • Genetic optimizer support for tuning strategies
  • Machine Learning mode - supports training and using trained models and ML decision engines
  • Positional Stop Stop Loss support, multiple smart stop strategies available
    • Fixed Percent
    • Trailing with fixed percent
    • ATR trailing stop (with variable ATR period support)
    • Strategy provided
  • Positional Take profit support
    • Fixed percent
    • Strategy provided
  • Supports trading multiple exchanges at the same time
  • Supports trading multiple trading pairs at the same time
  • Supports cross exchange, cross pair trading (Using signals and indicators on one exchange/trading-pair to make trading decision on another exchange/trading-pair)
  • Restartability (of live trading, backtesting, genetic optimizer)

Using Wolfinch

Starting the bot is fairly straight forward.

A few examples below covers most startup modes:

  • Fresh start: Wolfinch.py --config <config.yml>
  • Restart from previous state: Wolfinch.py --config <config.yml> --restart
  • Import historic data and exit: Wolfinch.py --config <config.yml> --import_only

A lot of sample config files are available in config/ directory. Those should serve as a very good starting point.

Read More here:

Introduction-to-the-friendly-trading-bot

algorithmic-trading-with-robinhood-using-wolfinch

algorithmic-trading-with-binance-using-wolfinch

Join subreddit - wolfinch

Supported Exchanges

  • Coinbase Pro
  • Binance
  • Binance US
  • Robinhood
  • gdax [deprecated]

Disclaimer:

This project is for educational purpose only. Strategies are experimental. Use them at your own risk.

Further Enhancements:

Not based on priority.

  1. more indicators
  2. more strategies
  3. improve Decision/Model
  4. more exchanges
  5. integrate news source, sentiment analysis input for decision
  6. Any feature requests

NOTE:

Read third-party Readme for dependencies

Donate:

You can donate to appreciate the countless hours spent on the development.

  • BTC : 35bYjx9Geo6gLM41nqRnZA5KpciJEfJokD
  • ETH : 0x2598eA883719a679deEf821736fa39DF0DD9F86C
  • LTC : MRfdbKHUrSxv2zKztdVyodKwSzpQNgofr8

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

See LICENSE to see the full text.

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