Starting your OctoBot

Automations

Automations are the new way to run OctoBot. An automation is a strategy running on your OctoBot node. It can do anything: DCA, baskets, grids, TradingView automation, and more. Automations support demo and live trading.

Configure and monitor your automations from the new OctoBot interface or the mobile app. This is the recommended path for most users.

See the getting started guide to set up your node and start your first automation. For the full vision behind automations and node mode, read The Next OctoBot, one platform for your entire crypto portfolio.

Manual OctoBots

For backtesting, Telegram, TradingView, and other advanced workflows, start a manual OctoBot instance from your node interface by clicking New OctoBot.

With the OctoBot trading robot you can create, test and configure your investment strategies with your own setup. Manual OctoBots have their own interface, deeper configuration options, and a backtesting engine. Install your trading bot on your computer or on a cloud server.

The guides below (configuration, trading modes, backtesting, interfaces, and more) apply to manual OctoBot instances started from your node.

Using OctoBot cloud

Use OctoBot cloud to easily invest in crypto baskets, profit from ready-made investment startegies and automate TradingView strategies.

In this case, www.octobot.cloud is made for you and the Investing section of those guides is what you are looking for.

Configuration and trading modes

OctoBot supports many trading strategies: the trading modes. Each trading mode is unique and consists in a different trading technique. Trading modes can:

• Trade on spot or futures markets.
• Use statistics and technical analysis to find the best trade entries and exits.
• Trade based on AI and ChatGPT predictions.
• Use market-making algorithms to minimize risks and grant regular small gains.
• Trade upon alerts from platforms such as TradingView.
• Use the best OctoBot cloud strategies

Do something entirely different based on your ideas:

• Customize your OctoBot to make it trade according to your ideas
• Or code and test your ideas directly using OctoBot script.

Chat directly with OctoBot

You can remotly command your OctoBot by connecting it to Telegram. You can follow what is your robot doing, watch its portfolio, its profits, trigger an emergency sell… Access your OctoBot from wherever you want, whenever you want thanks to its Telegram interface.

See the Telegram interface configuration for more details on the OctoBot Telegram interface.

Optimize your OctoBot using backtesting

Using OctoBot’s backtesting, test your current trading strategy using historical data from the markets you want to trade. Most OctoBot configurations are testable in backtesting.
Fine tune your bot’s configuration up to the very last detail and maximise your profits.

Take it one step further using OctoBot script

Turn your trading ideas into tested and optimized strategy using OctoBot script. Directly code your strategy in python while benefiting of all the OctoBot tools and an extremely flexible reporting and visualization system. Analyse exactly what is happening when running your ideas on past data and create your best strategies.

Supported exchanges

Find the list of supported and partner exchanges on the exchange summary.

Developer guides

Find the developpper guides on the developers section.