Stand alone project versus AlgoTrader enhancement about cointrader HOT 5 CLOSED

I did not, tim did all the main work. Parts are similar. Tim has done a
gteat job of a base frame work for crypto.
On 8 Aug 2014 18:51, "jplusk" [email protected] wrote:

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Douggie and Tim it seems like I came upon the same idea as the both of you
(link1 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/algo-trader/SGOIbdy8HKA
link2 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/algo-trader/YCnSA2cB5JU),
which is integrating the Xchange https://github.com/timmolter/XChange
feed and order handlers with an existing trading software package, such as Algo
Trader https://code.google.com/p/algo-trader/. I noticed that both of
you had given this software project a try and I wonder why you decided to
start this project from scratch versus building upon Algo Trader?

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Not sure of tim's thoughts, but the key things seem to be:

Support for multiple cryptos on differnt exchanges

Running portfolios with multiple owners

Ability to easy arbitage multiple exchanges

Long precision support
On 8 Aug 2014 19:03, "Douggie melville-clarke" [email protected]
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I did not, tim did all the main work. Parts are similar. Tim has done a
gteat job of a base frame work for crypto.
On 8 Aug 2014 18:51, "jplusk" [email protected] wrote:

This post relates to knowm/XChange#576
knowm/XChange#576

Douggie and Tim it seems like I came upon the same idea as the both of
you (link1
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/algo-trader/SGOIbdy8HKA link2
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/algo-trader/YCnSA2cB5JU),
which is integrating the Xchange https://github.com/timmolter/XChange
feed and order handlers with an existing trading software package, such as Algo
Trader https://code.google.com/p/algo-trader/. I noticed that both of
you had given this software project a try and I wonder why you decided to
start this project from scratch versus building upon Algo Trader?

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I did start to modify AlgoTrader and spent a month or more exploring that
option. One big problem is that cryptos trade in fractional volumes, but
AlgoTrader uses an int for all volumes. I'm also not a fan of model-driven
development and couldn't really get the dev environment to play nice with
my setup. I think there were a couple other gotcha's I can't remember at
the moment. Anyway, Coin Trader IMHO is further along than the open-source
version of AlgoTrader, is built ground-up for cryptos, and keeps the good
ideas from AlgoTrader of loading modules into Esper.

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OH also, AlgoTrader did not design for cross-exchange arbitrage. Their model doesn't distinguish between USD from one source and USD from a different source. Since the real FX market is highly efficient, it's a reasonable assumption, but in the cryptocurrency world, a fatal flaw. Coin Trader was specifically designed to handle price differences between exchanges.

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Thanks for the responses and I look forward to following the progress of CoinTrader.

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