Getting started coding tutorial#

Preface#

This is a tutorial how to programmatically access DeFi market data using Trading Strategy library.

To get started you need understand

Basic algorithmic trade, finance and quantitative research understanding
Basic Python
Basic Jupyter Notebook

Before you can start running tutorials

Read the overview on what development environment options you have to run the example notebooks

API keys#

When you run the notebook for the first time, you are asked to register an API key for Trading Strategy dataset download. You can also sign up for the API key on the website.

Quickstart#

Trading Strategy offers running its notebooks for free on Binder, a cloud Jupyter notebook hosting service.

Clicking the Launch binder button on any notebook in this documentation will automatically direct you to a runnable server on Binder service
This document is displaying the results of the last notebook run. Running the notebook yourself will execute all the cells and update the result of calculations

About this Getting started example#

This notebook you are reading is “Hello World” where we make our first dynamic market analysis.

The code belows creates a Trading Strategy API client instance that is used to communicate with the dataset server.

If you do not have an API key saved on the Notebook server yet, this will prompt you to create an API key and then saves it for you. Please answer the interactive questions when the notebook is running.

[1]:

from tradingstrategy.client import Client

client = Client.create_jupyter_client()

<jemalloc>: MADV_DONTNEED does not work (memset will be used instead)
<jemalloc>: (This is the expected behaviour if you are running under QEMU)

No existing Trading Strategy configuration found in /root/.tradingstrategy/settings.json. Starting interactive setup.
Using Trading Strategy requires you to have an API key.
The API key is in format 'secret-token:tradingstrategy-...'
Testing out API key: secret-token:tradingstra
The server replied accepted our API key and sent the following greetings:
Server version: 0.1
Message of the day: Han shot first
The API key setup complete.

Now when the API key is created and we are connected, we can do some analysis. Let’s get the top 10 supported exchanges by their 30 days trading volume for supported tokens.

[2]:

# Let's log the date when the this notebook was run,
# as the notebook and its output will be on the website documentation
import datetime
print(f"This Jupyter notebook was run and the results captured at {datetime.date.today()}")

This Jupyter notebook was run and the results captured at 2023-02-01

Then let’s extract some montly statistics from the exchange dataset.

[3]:

from typing import List
from IPython.display import display
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from tradingstrategy.chain import ChainId
from tradingstrategy.exchange import Exchange

universe = client.fetch_exchange_universe()

# Have nice type decoration to make the tutorial
# more readable
exchanges: List[Exchange] = []
volumes: List[float] = []
chains: List[str] = []

for xchg in universe.get_top_exchanges_by_30d_volume()[0:10]:
    exchanges.append(xchg.name)
    # Format volume with the  thousand separator
    volumes.append("{:,.2f}".format(xchg.vol_30d))
    # Pull blockchain name for the chain id number from
    # chain data database
    chain_id: ChainId = xchg.chain_id
    chains.append(chain_id.get_name())

# Convert output to Pandas DataFrame object so that
# notebook can render it as a nice table
df = pd.DataFrame({"Exchange": exchanges, "Blockchain": chains, "USD Volume 30d": volumes})

# Index rows starting with one instead of zero
df.index = np.arange(1, len(df)+1)

# Show dataframe as HTML table
display(df)

	Exchange	Blockchain	USD Volume 30d
1	Uniswap v3	Ethereum	24,796,171,631.11
2	PancakeSwap v2	Binance Smart Chain	3,296,881,933.19
3	Uniswap v2	Ethereum	2,365,628,460.17
4	Uniswap v3	Polygon	1,582,595,009.69
5	Sushi	Ethereum	748,421,932.53
6	Shiba Swap	Ethereum	271,597,428.20
7	Biswap	Binance Smart Chain	270,492,281.23
8	Quickswap	Polygon	181,327,202.93
9	Trader Joe	Avalanche C-chain	120,264,325.57
10	Nomiswap Stable	Binance Smart Chain	92,298,036.89

Ta-da - all done! Now you can proceed to view more complex examples.