Published in About Me Stories·PinnedMember-onlyAbout Me — Michael WhittleAutobiography for Michael Whittle, with a focus on my career path — I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. My father Richard, mother Teresa, brother Mark, and I lived in Sandton.About Me7 min readAbout Me7 min read
Published in Trading Data Analysis·Jan 29Member-only12.5% Return in 15 days!PyCryptoBot version 7 performance in January 2023 — I released PyCryptoBot version 7 in January 2023. During the recent crypto market crash, I used the opportunity to do a major code clean up and improvement. I wanted the bot to be in a solid state before the next bull run. I’ve added a bot on the three exchanges…Trading Bot8 min readTrading Bot8 min read
Published in Trading Data Analysis·Jan 21Member-onlyPyCryptoBot 7 ConfigurationA guide to describe PyCryptoBot features and configuration — There is a vast amount of configuration options in PyCryptoBot. So much so, that I often need to remind myself what everything does :) This article will serve as a guide to describe the configuration options and how they are used. There has been a significant update in PyCryptoBot 7…Trading Bot19 min readTrading Bot19 min read
Published in Trading Data Analysis·Jan 21Member-onlyPyCryptoBot 7 Live Test ResultsSharing my config and live test results from PyCryptoBot v7 — You may have noticed a lot of activity in the PyCryptoBot project over the last few months. While most “freak out” over yet another market crash, I take the time to prepare for the next bull run. I’ve spent months optimising and improving the code to have it ready for…Trading Bot3 min readTrading Bot3 min read
Published in Trading Data Analysis·Jan 16Member-onlyInstall and Setup of PyCryptoBot 7PyCryptoBot runs on almost any platform running Python >3.6 — PyCryptoBot runs on almost any platform running Python 3.6 or greater. It’s been successfully installed on OSX, Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi, AWS, and more. Typically users will either clone the Github repository, run it as a Docker container, or in Kubernetes. If there are any other implementations, it would be…Trading Bot12 min readTrading Bot12 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jan 15Member-onlyGithub Action CI/CD DevOpsCreating maintenance and operational Github repos — A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article on how to automate the creation of Docker containers using Github actions. Create a Docker image for React.js Create a production Docker image of a React.js websitemedium.com I’m the solution architect, lead developer, and owner of a very popular FREE open-source crypto trading bot called PyCryptoBot. Whenever I publish a new release, it triggers a Github…Productivity4 min readProductivity4 min read
Published in Trading Data Analysis·Jan 11Member-onlyNew Exchange for PyCryptoBot?Evaluating Quiver as a new exchange for PyCryptoBot — As some of you may be aware, I’ve been working on a new major release of PyCryptoBot. I thought I would take the opportunity during the current market dip to improve the code and add new functionality. …Crypto Exchange6 min readCrypto Exchange6 min read
Published in Trading Data Analysis·Dec 28, 2022Member-onlyLog Web Tail for PyCryptoBotMulti purpose utility to stream log files to a web browser — The crypto trading bot I developed (with contributions from the open-source community) has been deployed on a variety of platforms. It’s written in Python and totally free. It also means it can run on almost any hardware than can run Python 3. One challenge we resolved a few years ago…Innovation6 min readInnovation6 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Dec 23, 2022Member-onlyCreate a Docker image for React.jsCreate a production Docker image of a React.js website — I’ve been experimenting with Kubernetes, especially with related AWS services like Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) which is a managed Kubernetes control plane; Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) / AWS Fargate which are scalable container orchestration platforms that allows users to run, stop, and manage containers in a cluster; and Elastic…Technology11 min readTechnology11 min read
Published in Trading Data Analysis·Dec 11, 2022Member-only82.3% from S&P 500Long term investing into the S&P 500 — In August 2017, I invested £218,764.10 into the S&P 500. It’s worth £431,947.29 today, even with the 7.88% drop this year. 82.3% is not too shabby. That’s an increase of £213,183.19. The S&P 500 consists of 500 companies that issue a total of 503 stocks as of Dec. 11, 2022…Finance6 min readFinance6 min read
