How I spent 2+ years building an algorithmic crypto trading platform

I’ve always loved programming as far back as I can remember, but my journey into programming hasn’t been straightforward.

I was around 13 when I was playing around with a WordPress website and opened the source files. That was one of the first time I saw code. It was messy and with no syntax highlighting. But I loved it.

The fact that I could find pieces of code that I could then point to the elements on the front end was incredibly exciting for me. From there I started picking up HTML, CSS and JS.

It wasn’t until about 4 years ago, I decided to brush up on my backend programming skills. I had only very briefly used Python before. After trying working on some smaller projects, I decided to convert some of the trading bots that I had built on MetaTrader into Python.

Some Backstory

The first couple of bots I built were functional, but the code would probably cause you to have a stroke just by reading it. Nothing gets you to cringe more than code you wrote some years back.

As I got a bit more confident with the language, I decided to open source one of the bots that I had been working on — the Binance Volatility Trading Bot (BVTB).