DCABOT

I'm sick and tired of getting ass-blasted by fees from all of the different crypto apps. $1.00 fee on a $5.00 order in the Gemini app! Ridiculous!

Meanwhile, Gemini API charges a taker fee of 0.35% - That's $0.0175. And that's the highest the fee goes. Wow.

I could use Robinhood for "free crypto trades", but you don't actually own any crypto you buy with their platform. I'm not about that.

Why this project sucks

Despite the fact that this project currently works, there are many parts of the code I hope to change some day. Here are a few TODOs:

main

Way too complex for such a simple function. Yes, I used dca_bot as a project to learn, but the cost of this has been maintainability. There is a lot of functionality that I have to remember, whereas the functionality should be discernable in as few lines of code as possible (in this case).

directory structure

For some reason, I decided against putting Virtualenv resources in thier own directory. Chaos. For future projects, I'll stick to using the venv/ directory in the default directory that git clone creates.

I still need to learn more about how to setup directories for importing modules. cbpro basically puts all source code into a directroy with the same name as what you install with pip: cbpro. There's probably a utilitarian reason for this.

tests

There are none!! I was too lazy to learn! My tests/ directory is what I used for testing how code works. Should use tmp/ for this and .gitignore it.

configuration

I believe a configuration script should do two things: 1) grab configuration values from a file, and 2) provide those values to the modules that imports it. I don't believe that a configuration file should provide functions to a module that imports it. config.py

Overview

• Use bot to daily buy $X of crypto

Tech

The purpose of this project is to learn various tech (on top of accumulating crypto). For lack of a better title, this is an overview of the tools used in the project, in the context of how I'm learning about them. For example, I understand "logging" isn't what you might think of as a tool, but it is something I'm learning how to do with Python. So I included it in as a tech topic.

Python 3

Topics:

• Directory and file structure
• Best-practices for coding
• Logging
• Configuration and secrets management