README
Cointrol
Cointrol is a Bitcoin trading bot and real-time dashboard for Bitstamp created by @jkbrzt.
Cointrol was created to automate Bitcoin speculation. Besides automated trading based on price change triggers and various trading strategies, it also provides a real-time updated dashboard for your Bitstamp account where you can see all your orders and transactions real-time updated (something Bitstamp lacks). The dashboard for a real-time updated overview can also be used standalone without letting Cointrol make any transactions.
Even though the original idea was to perhaps provide a fully-fledged hosted service, the system remained quite basic as it has only been used by its creator for a period of time in the winter of '13/'14 (when BTC price fluctuations were pretty insane). Some of the obvious limitations—all of which could easily be addressed—are:
- Only basic trading strategies are implemented
- Single user/Bitstamp account is supported
- Only one active trading session at a time
- The whole account value is used when trading
- Django admin is used for auth and trading strategy/session manipulations
Even though Cointrol has been used for real transactions, no guarantees are provided in terms of security, correctness, etc. (see LICENCE).
Architecture
The system consists of the following components:
