What Is CCXT?
In quantitative finance, CCXT is a popular software development library for abstracting integration with different cryptocurrency exchanges.
CCXT is one of the most popular open source libraries for trading automation for cryptocurrencies. Traders use it to connect to different cryptocurrency exchanges to automatically execute trades and trading strategies. CCXT supports ~200 different cryptocurrency exchanges.
Use cases include
Algorithmic Trading: Build and backtest trading strategies using historical data or real-time feeds, leveraging CCXT’s ability to fetch data and execute trades across exchanges.
Arbitrage: Identify and exploit price differences between exchanges by using CCXT to monitor and trade on multiple platforms simultaneously.
Portfolio Management: Monitor and manage cryptocurrency holdings across multiple exchanges.
Market Analysis: Collect and analyze large datasets for statistical modeling, machine learning, or technical analysis.
Risk Management: Use CCXT to fetch real-time data for calculating metrics like volatility, Value-at-Risk (VaR), or portfolio exposure.
Benefits of CCXT are * Saves Time: Abstracts away the complexity of dealing with different exchange APIs. * Scalability: Supports a wide range of exchanges, making it easy to scale strategies across platforms. * Community-Driven: Actively maintained with contributions from developers worldwide. * Open-Source: Free to use and customizable for specific needs.
CCXT is developed in domain-specific language variation of TypeScript, and API bindings are generated for multiple programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, PHP, Rust and C#.
CCXT supports spot markets, perpetual futures.
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