greed

Greed is a tool for automating trades 📈

Investment Platforms

Currently, Greed supports the following investment platforms:

• Alpaca

Credentials

Alpaca

To use Alpaca add the following variables to your environment:

export APCA_API_KEY_ID='<live_key_id>'
export APCA_API_SECRET_KEY='<live_secret_key>'

# The below can be used for paper trading. Invoke greed with -s to use paper trading.
export SIMULATED_APCA_API_KEY_ID='<paper_key_id>'
export SIMULATED_APCA_API_SECRET_KEY='<paper_secret_key>'

Running Greed 🚀

To run Greed in a simulated environment, you can use the following command:

greed run -s <path_to_config>

To run Greed in a live environment, you can use the following command:

greed run <path_to_config>

Configuration

Simple Configuration

Greed supports a simple CSV format for simple configurations. The following is an example configuration:

asset,amount,buy,sell,skip
$VTI ,50.0  ,5.0,1.0 ,false
SPY  ,25.0  ,1.0,    ,false
SKIP ,30.0  ,1.0,1.0 ,true
VEA  ,25.0  ,   ,2.0 ,

The following columns are supported:

• asset: The asset to trade
• amount: The amount of the asset buy, as a percentage of the total portfolio.
• buy: The percentage below the median price to buy the asset.
• sell: The percentage of gains to buy the asset.
• skip: If true, this row will be skipped. This can be useful if your sheet has rows which you don't intend to be part of the configuration.

Advanced Configuration

For more advanced configurations, Greed supports a TOML configuration file. The following is an example configuration:

# The interval between each strategy run in seconds
interval = 300
# The platform to use for trading (alpaca)
platform = "alpaca"

[[strategies]]
# Each strategy can have an optional name
name = "ETF"

# Each stategy has for, when and do rules.
# In the following example we are buying $VTI when it is below the median price by 5% and selling when the gain is above 5%
[strategies.buy]
for = { stock = "$VTI" }
when = { below_median_percent = 5.0 }
do = { buy_percent = 10 }

# You can have as many strategies as you'd like in a single configuration.
[strategies.sell]
for = { stock = "$VTI" }
when = { gain_above_percent = 5.0 }
do = { sell_all = true }

[[strategies]]
name = "Chaos"

[strategies.buy]
for = { stock = "$UVXY" }
when = { below_median_percent = 2.0, median_period = "week" }
do = { buy_percent = 5 }

[strategies.sell]
for = { stock = "$UVXY" }
when = { gain_above_percent = 3.0 }
do = { sell_all = true }