CRYPTO TRADING & MACHINE LEARNING

Wanna Help Forecast the Next Bitcoin Candle? Join Our Crowdsourced Machine Learning Modelling Effort!

Contribute some computing power and get rewarded with predictions for top cryptocurrencies using open-source software!

Julian Molina
Coinmonks
Published in
6 min readMay 19, 2022

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve likely fantasized about cracking crypto markets using ML. Boy, does that sound great!

Being able to predict with some level of certainty if the price will go up or down, and an approximate range of motion would certainly give you an advantage over everyone else!

If you’re not a Machine Learning expert, the quest is probably out of reach, unless you’re willing to spend a few years learning everything there is to learn about ML and existing financial implementations. Unless, of course, you wish to join our open-source community effort!

In that case, all you need is some basic technical abilities to run Superalgos, our open-source crypto trading automation platform, and contribute some CPU/GPU cycles to the collective effort!

Now, if you are deep into ML and have experience with financial implementations, or even with market predictions, you may have run into some serious roadblocks already. The main hurdle is that training machine learning models is an extremely intensive computational process. The whole paradigm is predicated on the processing of massive amounts of data.

If you’re serious about cracking the code, you’ll probably need to invest in an industrial-grade data center to supply the computing resources required.

Or maybe you want to join our team, contribute your expertise, and leverage our collective computation resources to help train new models!

Think of it this way…

You need to test all possible combinations of the parameters that define the architecture of the model and the shape of the data, each with a range of possible values, and you need to test them for each market and time frame you wish to work with. You don’t know which are the data sets that are the most relevant to making predictions, so you will need to produce and test a bunch of them. Now add that markets evolve and change all the time, meaning that even if you found the perfect set of parameters for today’s predictions, the model will eventually become obsolete!

The continual and never-ending task of brute-force testing all possible combinations is the perfect candidate for a crowdsourced effort because no individual can run all the required tests on their own unless they are willing to make substantial investments to set up and operate a significant data processing facility.

Now take a minute to ponder the reverse logic!

No one can compete with a distributed, ever-growing crowdsourced effort, and that is why you will want to join!

This Is How It Works

You will be joining a community of algo traders building the most powerful open-source crypto markets research and trading automation platform out there.

Superalgos is among the top projects for the trading and trading bots searches on Github, with tens of thousands of downloads. It’s also first in the crypto trading and crypto trading strategies topics!

Go ahead and see for yourself!

Superalgos Platform integrated Charting System

If you wish to learn more about what to expect from the system, take a look at the Superalgos Platform page on the website. Also, if you wish to take the system for a spin before installing, there’s a limited online demo available on the website too.

The ML Test Client runs from within the Superalgos Platform and connects to a remote ML Test Server run by community members. The server administers test cases and distributes them among platform users running the ML Test Client.

What’s In It For You

Superalgos is a community-owned crypto project distributing the project’s native Superalgos $SA token exclusively among open-source contributors.

When you run the ML Test Client, every time your machine solves a test case and sends the results to the ML Test Server, the server logs the work performed by your User Profile, and the computing power you contribute grants you monthly rewards in the native token!

Once you accumulate enough tokens for your contributions, you will be granted access to the best available predictions of the next candle of the top crypto assets paired against USDT for time frames of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 hours.

You will also be granted access to buy and sell signals derived from other collective ML models we are training.

You can use the predictions and signals to trade manually or incorporate them into automated strategies you may build using Superalgos. You will learn all the details on how to do so as you advance with the learning curve and engage with the crowd participating in the collective effort!

You may also contribute to the project in many other ways to increase your token balance much faster!

How to Start

1. Download and Install Superalgos

Once you’re ready to go, click this link to go to the Superalgos Github repository and follow the instructions on the README file to get up and running with the Installation for Developers and Contributors (other installations are not tested for the ML project).

If you have any issues with the installation or the learning curve, join the Superalgos Support group on Telegram or the Superalgos Discord server to get help from the community.

You should also join the Superalgos Machine Learning group on Telegram to get help with running the testing tasks and to get in touch with the crowd driving the ML area of the project.

2. Do the First Three Tutorials

You need to get familiar with Superalgos before you may participate in the crowd-testing efforts.

I’ll be completely honest with you… Superalgos is a vast system designed to unleash incredible power — but requires time to master. It’ll take anything from two to three hours to complete the first three in-app interactive tutorials.

Those first few tutorials will give you an overall understanding of how the system works. There are many more tutorials that you can go through, and over 1500 pages of documentation built into the app.

The whole thing may not be suitable for a weekend adventure. But if you’re interested in trading, automation, and ML, then I’m confident Superalgos will blow your mind and I’m certain the learning process will be worth every second of your time!

3. Create and Contribute Your User Profile

Your user profile is your identity within the project. You will need it to authenticate with the test server.

To create your profile you will go to the Token-Distribution-Superalgos workspace and do the Creating Your User Profile Tutorial.

4. Learn How to Run the ML Test Client

By the time you’re familiar with Superalgos and have created your User Profile, you’ll be ready to start participating in the testing efforts!

Go to the Bitcoin Factoryfolder on your Superalgos installation and follow the instructions on the theREADMEfile to get up and running! You can take a look at the README in the repo before installing if you wish to learn more before you deep dive into Superalgos!

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Julian Molina
Coinmonks

I’m a lifelong entrepreneur and co-founder of Superalgos.org, a Bitcoin-inspired open-source project crowdsourcing superpowers for retail traders.