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BX-bot

BX-bot is a Java application for automated Bitcoin trading on cryptocurrency exchanges. It combines a trading engine with exchange adapters and strategy interfaces, and includes an example scalping strategy. Users provide or develop the trading strategies that determine its decisions.

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Understand the project

Practical overview

When it fits

Use BX-bot when you want a Java framework for exchange-connected trading and are prepared to configure it and supply the trading logic.

Who it is for

  • Java developers implementing or adapting automated trading strategies.
  • Operators who want to run a self-hosted bot with supported exchange adapters.

Documented uses

  • Build and run a Java Bitcoin trading bot.
  • Connect trading strategies to included exchange adapters.
  • Develop a custom strategy or exchange adapter using the project's APIs.
  • Use the default simulated-order adapter for initial setup or paper trading.
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Requirements & limits

The project is public on GitHub and is released under the MIT license. It supports JDK 21 and runs on Linux, macOS and Windows.

  • Trading strategies are not supplied as a complete strategy library; the project includes only an example scalping strategy.
  • Included exchange adapters are for Bitstamp, Bitfinex, Kraken and Gemini.
  • The default TryMode adapter simulates private order-management calls while delegating public API calls to Bitstamp.
  • The Trading API supports spot-price limit orders.
  • Builds use Maven or Gradle, and YAML configuration changes require restarting the bot.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Build a BX-bot distribution with Maven

Create distribution archives from the project using the documented Maven build process.

Before you start

  • JDK 21 installed on the build machine
  • The BX-bot project source and its Maven wrapper

Steps

  1. From the project root, run ./mvnw clean package.

  2. Find the distribution archives in ./bxbot-app/target.

Expected outcome

The Maven build produces `bxbot-app--dist.tar.gz` and `bxbot-app--dist.zip`.

Guide limitations

  • This guide covers building the distribution only; it does not configure or run a trading bot.
  • The README gives Linux/macOS commands and says equivalent Windows scripts are included.
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