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Trading is a rewarding and risky activity. If you’re new to Hummingbot, you’re in the midst of a mature community that has found market making to be both exciting and profitable in the long term. That might be you, but before you go all-in and mortgage your house in crypto trading, here are the top seven pitfalls and misconceptions that all Hummingbot beginners face. This article works best if you’ve at least spent some time taking Hummingbot on a test drive, but it’s by no means a requirement.
Common misconceptions:
It is highly recommended that you read the following article to learn more: https://hummingbot.io/en/blog/2022-03-02-beginners-top-misconceptions/
You must be wondering, what are the top miners doing that is earning them thousands of dollars a week? This piece is a result of discussions with some of the miners who are in the Eagle Club (Hummingbot’s VIP club), and we hope it unveils some of the things profitable miners do. We will cover the following points:
Picking Pairs
Managing Inventory Risks
Setting up guardrails
Constant experimentation
Joining a community
For more information you can check out this link: https://hummingbot.io/en/blog/2022-03-04-common-hallmarks-of-successful-miners
Here are some helpful Hummingbot features and configs. For all features and configs, visit Hummingbot documentation.
This feature allows users to test Hummingbot and simulate trading strategies without risking any actual assets. Enter the command paper_trade to enable this feature.
https://hummingbot.org/global-configs/paper-trade/
Sets the amount limit on how many assets Hummingbot can use in an exchange or wallet. This can be useful when running multiple bots on different trading pairs with same tokens e.g. running a BTC-USDT pair and another bot on ETH-USDT using the same account.
https://hummingbot.org/global-configs/balance-limit/
By default, we set the minimum to an equivalent of $11 which is defined under min_quote_order_amount in the global config file. The market_mid_price is the average of the order book's best bid and best ask.
(Can't find link for minimum_order_size)
Run the history command in Hummingbot to display the current duration of total past trades, assets inventory, and value, market trading pair performance.
https://hummingbot.org/operation/history/
Kill switch is a global parameter in the Hummingbot client. This stops your strategy when it reached or exceeds the kill_switch_rate value, which can be either positive or negative. This means if you set it to 10% after you've profited at 10% the bot will stop. If you set to -10% then the bot will stop at a 10% loss.
https://hummingbot.org/global-configs/kill-switch/
If you haven't used Telegram before, it's a messaging app that can be installed on mobile and laptop/desktop computers. You can set up your Hummingbot to integrate with Telegram so you can send selected commands and view your bot status from the app.
https://hummingbot.org/global-configs/telegram/
How can you ensure that you are capturing liquidity mining rewards while running your bot? Trader and community member mobiwan’s article provides a good beginners guide to make sure your bots are set up to get the rewards going:
[Trader tips] The orders must flow from Trader Mobiwan
In the beginning process of your learning journey, it is important that you maintain a good feedback loop and constantly run experiments before doubling down your capital.
Here are some tips from Trader Diego on how you can:
Strategy tips for new users on using Pure Market Making Strategy and Cross Exchange Market Making dealing with thin order books.
Here’s a beginners guide from trader and community member Wojak on how to be good at market making:
Manuel Zeiler https://hummingbot.io/en/blog/2019-05-crypto-trader-interview3/
Manuel Zeiler explains how he uses cross-exchange market making strategy with 10% profit per month. This interview covers how he manages his strategies, inventory, inventory risk, and profits.
Harry Yeh https://hummingbot.io/en/blog/2020-07-top-trader-interview-harry-yeh/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKZSvEcqdvg
The video and blog post shares how Harry Yeh got into trading, approaches his trading strategies, and how he handles market volatility.
MrBig1964 https://hummingbot.io/en/blog/2020-12-top-liquidity-miner-interview4/
Practical tips on how he manages multiple bots, changing configurations, managing PnL, making money with compounding, and mitigating risks.
David Salter https://hummingbot.io/en/blog/2019-07-top-bounty-hunter-interview1/
Neohowie https://hummingbot.io/en/blog/2020-05-top-liquidity-miner-interview2/
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