3Commas FTX ADX Trigger Script

This script creates a set of trading bots on 3Commas.io based on available perpetual futures on FTX.com, and automatically provides triggers for those bots to start deals.

• Original blog about this script
• Original blog about Google Cloud VM

Setup FTX and 3Commas

Create and setup FTX

• Create an FTX account
  • Go to FTX.com
  • Follow the registration process
• Logon and deposit tokens of your choice.
  • Go to https://ftx.com/wallet and CONVERT the tokens to USD (USD) as this script only works with USD.
• Go to the Subaccounts page: https://ftx.com/profile#Subaccounts
  • Press CREATE SUBACCOUNT, call this PyBot1
  • At Select Account, choose PyBot1, see at the right-top that you see the name of this sub-account.
  • At Transfer Funds Between Subaccounts choose USD (USD), Source Account: Main Account, Destination Account: PyBot1 and the amount of USD that you want to use for this script.
  • Go to the Wallet at https://ftx.com/wallet, look at the right-top to see if you are at subaccount PyBot1 and see if you see your USD's.
• Click at your name in the right-top and select API: https://ftx.com/settings/api
  • Press Create API Key for PyBot1
  • Copy API key and API Secret to a text-file for later usage

Create and setup 3Commas

• Create a free 3Commas account
  • Go to 3Commas.io
  • Press Try It Free
  • Follow the registration process
• Logon, click on the round icon at the right-top and select API
• Press + New API access token
  • Name: pybot
  • Select: Bots read, Bots write and Accounts read
  • Copy API key and API Secret to a text-file for later usage
• Connect 3Commas with FTX
  • Go to My Exchanges: https://3commas.io/accounts
  • Press + Connect a new exchange
  • Select API Connect
  • Name: FTX
  • Sub-accoun Name: PyBot1
  • API Key: Use the FTX API Key
  • API Secret: Use the FTX API Secret

Setup Google Cloud VM

• Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/ and login with your Google account
• Select at the left (open menu if needed) COMPUTE - Compute Engine - VM instances
• Press Create Instance (Enable API if needed)
  • Name: vm-pybot
  • Region: us-east1 (South Carolina)
  • Machine type: e2-micro (2 vCPU, 1 GB memory
  • CREATE
• When the VM is created
  • Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instances
  • Press under Connect at SSH. An commandline interface should pop-up in a new window.
• Execute the following commands

  1. sudo apt-get -y update
     

  2. sudo apt-get -y install build-essential wget git unzip tmux python3 python3-pip
     

  3. sudo wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
     tar -xzf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
     cd ta-lib/
     ./configure --prefix=/usr
     make
     sudo make install
     cd ..
     

  4. pip3 install --upgrade setuptools
     pip3 install TA-lib pandas_ta ccxt py3cw
     

  5. git clone https://github.com/MvantLoo/adx-bot
     

Configure and run the adx-bot

• Execute the following commands

  1. cd adx-bot
     cp example.config.py config.py
     

  2. nano config.py
     

• Update the following lines:

  1. TC_ACCOUNT_ID = '' 3Commas Account ID

  2. TC_API_KEY = '' 3Commas API Key

  3. TC_API_SECRET = '' 3Commas API Secret

  4. API_KEY = '' FTX API Key

  5. SECRET_KEY = '' FTX Secret Key

  6. SUB_ACCOUNT = '' FTX Sub-account

• Save the file and exit nano with Ctrl-X, confirm the filename.
• Start a new Tmux session

  tmux new -s pybot1
  

• Create the bots

  python3 Py3c_create.py
  

• Run the script

  python3 adx_bot.py
  

• Sit back and enjoy

Reopen the running script

If for whatever reason you loose access to the SSH window, you can open a new window and reopen the running session.

• Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instances
• Press under Connect at SSH. An commandline interface should pop-up in a new window.
• List the running Tmux sessions

  tmux ls
  

• Attach to the running pybot1 session

  tmux a -t pybot1