Telegram usage¶

This page explains how to command your bot with Telegram.

Prerequisite¶

To control your bot with Telegram, you need first to set up a Telegram bot and add your Telegram API keys into your config file.

Telegram commands¶

Per default, the Telegram bot shows predefined commands. Some commands are only available by sending them to the bot. The table below list the official commands. You can ask at any moment for help with /help.

Command	Default	Description
`/start`		Starts the trader
`/stop`		Stops the trader
`/reload_conf`		Reloads the configuration file
`/status`		Lists all open trades
`/status table`		List all open trades in a table format
`/count`		Displays number of trades used and available
`/profit`		Display a summary of your profit/loss from close trades and some stats about your performance
`/forcesell <trade_id>`		Instantly sells the given trade (Ignoring `minimum_roi`).
`/forcesell all`		Instantly sells all open trades (Ignoring `minimum_roi`).
`/forcebuy <pair> [rate]`		Instantly buys the given pair. Rate is optional. (`forcebuy_enable` must be set to True)
`/performance`		Show performance of each finished trade grouped by pair
`/balance`		Show account balance per currency
`/daily <n>`	7	Shows profit or loss per day, over the last n days
`/help`		Show help message
`/version`		Show version

Telegram commands in action¶

Below, example of Telegram message you will receive for each command.

/start¶

Status: running

/stop¶

Stopping trader ... Status: stopped

/status¶

For each open trade, the bot will send you the following message.

Trade ID: 123 Current Pair: CVC/BTC Open Since: 1 days ago Amount: 26.64180098 Open Rate: 0.00007489 Close Rate: None Current Rate: 0.00007489 Close Profit: None Current Profit: 12.95% Open Order: None

/status table¶

Return the status of all open trades in a table format.

   ID  Pair      Since    Profit
----  --------  -------  --------
  67  SC/BTC    1 d      13.33%
 123  CVC/BTC   1 h      12.95%

/count¶

Return the number of trades used and available.

current    max
---------  -----
     2     10

/profit¶

Return a summary of your profit/loss and performance.

ROI: Close trades ∙ 0.00485701 BTC (258.45%) ∙ 62.968 USD ROI: All trades ∙ 0.00255280 BTC (143.43%) ∙ 33.095 EUR

Total Trade Count: 138 First Trade opened: 3 days ago Latest Trade opened: 2 minutes ago Avg. Duration: 2:33:45 Best Performing: PAY/BTC: 50.23%

/forcesell ¶

BITTREX: Selling BTC/LTC with limit 0.01650000 (profit: ~-4.07%, -0.00008168)

/forcebuy ¶

BITTREX: Buying ETH/BTC with limit 0.03400000 (1.000000 ETH, 225.290 USD)

Note that for this to work, forcebuy_enable needs to be set to true.

/performance¶

Return the performance of each crypto-currency the bot has sold.

Performance: 1. RCN/BTC 57.77% 2. PAY/BTC 56.91% 3. VIB/BTC 47.07% 4. SALT/BTC 30.24% 5. STORJ/BTC 27.24% ...

/balance¶

Return the balance of all crypto-currency your have on the exchange.

Currency: BTC Available: 3.05890234 Balance: 3.05890234 Pending: 0.0

Currency: CVC Available: 86.64180098 Balance: 86.64180098 Pending: 0.0

/daily ¶

Per default /daily will return the 7 last days. The example below if for /daily 3:

Daily Profit over the last 3 days:

Day         Profit BTC      Profit USD
----------  --------------  ------------
2018-01-03  0.00224175 BTC  29,142 USD
2018-01-02  0.00033131 BTC   4,307 USD
2018-01-01  0.00269130 BTC  34.986 USD

/version¶

Version: 0.14.3