Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScript
One redeeming quality of cryptocurrencies existing is that all the exchanges have REST compliant APIs and real time data available for free<p>The finance sector’s biggest meme for the last decade and a half was that PhD quants were required to program trading algorithms when really a single exchange cost $12,000 a month for real time data, it came with horrible documentation, support, antiquated protocols, FIX, and then you had to figure out how to co-locate your own server to connect to the exchange fast enough to prevent front running<p>The gatekeeping is what kept this specialized for the most part