Exchanges Notes

Binance

Status: Work in Progress

I have a preliminary Binance struct, and it supports Binance's COIN-M Futures API. It works, but to properly support all of Binance's APIs, I'm going to have to add more structs and rename the current Binance struct to something like BinanceCMFutures. In the end, there may be 4 or 5 exchange types just for Binance.

Proxies are needed if you're local IP is from a forbidden country.

Bitget

Status: Slightly Broken

I had to use an undocumented API that their trading front-end uses to acquire 1m candles, because their official API only gives you the last 30 days of 1m candles. It was working fine for a while, but in early February 2024, its behavior changed and broke earliest_candle().

Proxies are needed if you're local IP is from a forbidden country.

Bitmex

Status: DONE

When running save!(bitmex, market), I strongly advise setting delay=3.5. That'll keep you under the rate limit for unauthenticated users.

One thing I like about this library is that you don't need to be authenticated to use it. However, Bitmex gives authenticated users a much better rate limit, so I'd like to support authentication eventually.

Bitstamp

Status: DONE

This exchange is a valuable source of historical data. Their "BTC/USD" goes back all the way to 2011-08-18 which is the longest of any known exchange.

Bybit

Status: DONE

The v5 iteration of their API is one of the nicest I've worked with.

Proxies are needed if you're local IP is from a forbidden country.

PancakeSwap

Status: DONE*

I say it's done, but I'm not totally sure. Instead of using documentation (which I couldn't find), I ended up reverse engineering their APIs. I later discovered that they look a lot like Binance's APIs, and that helped me take this to a working state.

This is the only DEX among the currently supported exchanges.