Feature Announcement: Shrimpy Price Predictions

Users can now request price and trend predictions at Shrimpy Developers via our API to forecast crypto market movements.

DeveloperMarko MihajlovićMay 5, 2021announcement, notlatest, topsectionComment

Binance Websocket, Order Book, and Candlestick Data (Python Scripts)

Many people are still having difficulties when it comes to collecting the necessary data for their trading strategies, backtesting, and portfolio analysis. This article will provide an efficient and cost-effective way for anyone to access comprehensive live and historical market data from Binance.

DeveloperMichael McCartyOctober 9, 2020binance, tutorial, notlatest, topsectionComment

Coinbase Pro Live and Historical Market Data [Example Python Scripts]

In this article, we provide a number of different Python scripts for collecting market data on Coinbase Pro. These scripts include those for collecting live ticker data, websocket data, historical order books, and candlesticks.

DeveloperMichael McCartyOctober 9, 2020coinbase, tutorial, notlatest, topsectionComment

Python Scripts for Crypto Trade Data Websockets

Collecting trade data from crypto exchanges is a nightmare. It takes months to set up the infrastructure and then countless man hours to maintain the infrastructure over time.

DeveloperMichael McCartySeptember 26, 2020data, notlatest, topsectionComment

Crypto Exchange Order Book Websockets for Developers [Python Scripts]

Connecting to cryptocurrency exchanges and streaming live order book data is simple with the Shrimpy developer APIs. Every exchange can be accessed in the same way since Shrimpy does the heavy lifting when it comes to collecting data, processing updates, and converting all data to a consistent format.

DeveloperMichael McCartySeptember 25, 2020data, notlatest, topsectionComment

Historical Crypto Trade Data [Example Python Scripts]

Historical crypto trade data contains the individual trades that were executed by an exchange over time. Each historical trade contains information about the trading pair, the trade size, the exact time the trade was executed, and the price of the assets being bought or sold.

DeveloperMichael McCartySeptember 24, 2020data, notlatest, topsectionComment

Python Scripts for Historical Crypto Exchange Order Book Snapshots

There is a major issue in the cryptocurrency market. Countless exchanges are operating thousands of trading markets and pumping out billions of data points every day. Although the data is publicly available, nobody has collected, organized, and stored this data in a way that is accessible to developers.

DeveloperMichael McCartySeptember 23, 2020data, notlatest, topsection Comments

The API for Crypto Trading Bots

Many trading services struggle to scale past even a single exchange integration. Each new exchange integration past the largest exchanges produces lower and lower returns, making it impractical to build a service for more than the top few exchanges.

The following sections will discuss how developers can integrate every major exchange without ever worrying about maintaining and scaling the complex infrastructure that is required for exchanges.

DeveloperMichael McCartyMarch 2, 2020tutorialComment

The Bitcoin Trading APIs for Cryptocurrency (Updated 2020)

In this article, we’ll be showing you how to set up cryptocurrency trading using APIs. This process can be repeated for every major exchange due to the universal developer tools provided by Shrimpy.

DeveloperMichael McCartyFebruary 26, 2020trading, tutorial, generalComment

The Universal Crypto Exchange APIs (Updated 2020)

Shrimpy is becoming the layer on top of exchanges which promotes the development of products and services that can advance the global adoption of cryptocurrencies. Our mission is to bring cryptocurrencies to every person by both improving the development process as well as providing services which are simply designed and easy to use.

DeveloperMichael McCartyJanuary 16, 2020trading, generalComment

How to Build a Crypto Trading Bot for Binance (Using Python)

If you want to get started participating in the development of trading bots, this is the best place to start. Throughout this article, we will teach you how to access market data from the exchange, connect to exchange accounts to read balance data, execute trades, chart candlesticks, and even connect to real-time websockets for ticker data.

DeveloperMichael McCartyDecember 20, 2019binance, tutorialComment

CCXT Live Crypto Exchange Price Ticker [Example Tutorial]

We will cover two different ways to generate a live price ticker. The first strategy will be to access the data directly from the exchange and calculate our own price ticker based on the information we want. Using an open source like CCXT, we have fine control over the data we access.

DeveloperMichael McCartyNovember 14, 2019tutorial, dataComment

CCXT Crypto Exchange Order Book Data [Example Tutorial]

Whether you’re creating a personal trading bot or developing a full trading service which will support thousands of users, exchange order book data will be at the top of your mind. It is one of the first elements that are required to successfully evaluating the market and executing a strategy.

DeveloperMichael McCartyNovember 12, 2019tutorial, dataComment

CCXT Alternative - The Pro Cryptocurrency Trading API

Cryptocurrency exchanges have a serious problem. They are completely independent organizations which have individually decided the standards, functionality, and features for their APIs. They don’t abide by traditional conventions or follow industry expectations. Every single exchange has implemented their own completely unique API with custom endpoints which interface with their services.

DeveloperMichael McCartyNovember 6, 2019tutorial, tradingComment

Historical Crypto Price Candlestick (OHLCV) Data

In an effort to expand our historical data offerings, the Shrimpy team has added new endpoints in the Shrimpy developer APIs for the support of historical candlestick (OHLCV) data. This new addition will cover our complete available history of trade data.

DeveloperMichael McCartyOctober 14, 2019data, generalComment

Automating Crypto Portfolios with Trading Scripts

Automating your cryptocurrency portfolio can be a complex process if you try to implement the management logic from scratch. Instead of building the automation infrastructure from the ground up, this article will cover how to implement an automated portfolio strategy with only a few lines of code in Python.

The time consuming process of constructing a diverse portfolio is reduced to simple logic. No more logging into your cryptocurrency exchanges, or manually calculating the balances of each of your assets across exchanges.

DeveloperMichael McCartyOctober 1, 2019trading, tutorialComment

Python Scripts for Crypto Trading Bots [API Trading Tutorial]

If you’ve been in the cryptocurrency market for more than a few days, you probably know the feeling of the market dropping and you feel hopeless in cashing out your portfolio into a stablecoin or Bitcoin.

Instead of panicking, take control of your portfolio by learning how to write powerful scripts which can instantly execute the trades you need to move in and out of positions.

By the end of this tutorial, you will be equipped with tools which allow you to fully automate and control your portfolio without ever logging into your exchange accounts.

DeveloperMichael McCartySeptember 26, 2019trading, tutorial, dataComment

A Python Script to Check Your Crypto Portfolio Value on Binance, Bittrex, and KuCoin

The following tutorial will take a step-by-step approach to detail how you can connect to an exchange account through APIs and access your balance data without ever logging into your exchanges.

DeveloperMichael McCartySeptember 24, 2019binance, bittrex, kucoin, trading, tutorial, dataComment