Alertatron Blog

A new order type to manage a position from entry to exit, plus a few other changes in the automated trading bot...

I've just released a couple of new features for you all...

Great news! You can now uses percentages in position arguments, and we've added support for working out a percentage of your current position size that can be used in both amount and position settings.

There are a couple of new updates to the automated trading bot, including new tests for continue and stop, and some big improvements to the market maker.

Being able to place orders that can only reduce your position size is super useful, especially for closing positions. The automated trading bot supported this for limit orders and used it for stop loss orders, but now there is more...

Aggressive entry orders are now more efficient, plus I've tweaked a few other things for a smoother ride.

I've been hard at work making improvements to the automated trade execution bot. In fact, this is one of the biggest releases to date...

Chart captures at peak times (for example, at 12 hour candle closes) were starting to take longer than I would like, so I've double the capacity of the servers that are processing all the chart renders and added more workers to handle the incoming requests.

Good news! We've made the existing aggressive entry order even more powerful than before...

You can now use percentages for order sizes on BitMEX for most symbols / instruments. You can specify an order amount as a percentage of your total balance (using %) or as a percentage of your available margin (using %%).