wesley1001 / trading-bot

Stock trading bot using sci-kitlearn machine learning algorithms to make predictions and place market buy/sell orders against a stock symbol of your choice using the Alpaca trading platform

Alpaca Trading Bot 💰

Details

A simple trading bot, that makes use of:

• The Alpha Advantage API to get historical stock data for a specified symbol
• The Alpaca Trading API to make market buy and sell orders
• A combination of scikit-learn RandomForestClassifier and LogisticRegression machine learning algorithms are used to make trading decisions
• Buy orders are configured to buy at a value of (total buying power / buying power divider) / stock price (configured in the .env file)
• Sell orders are configured to sell all currently held stock
• Orders are only placed if the prediction accuracy has a confidence level above the specified percentage (configured in the .env file)
• On bot run, messages are sent to a specified discord webhook at different checkpoints (configured in the .env file)

Usage

Requires at least Python 3.7

Install dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Configure a .env file by using the .example_env file and replacing all values with your own

1. You will need to create an Alpha Advantage account to get an API key
2. You will need to create an Alpaca account to get an API key and Secret
3. You will need a discord server that you can create webhooks for

$ cp .example.env .env

Run the bot

$ python main.py

Continuous Deployment

This project is configured to deploy the bot to the configured server and send a message to the configured Discord webhook via Github Actions - note - this requires configuring the necessary secrets in the repo