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Botmarley

Botmarley is a self-hosted cryptocurrency trading bot that runs on your own hardware. You write trading strategies, test them against historical data, and run them live on Kraken and Binance. No cloud service holds your keys, and nobody else touches your funds.

You install it, you run it, you own it.

What you can do with it

  • Build strategies in a visual editor or as raw TOML, with live validation.
  • Backtest against historical candle data before you risk real money.
  • Trade live on Kraken and Binance, with start, pause, and resume controls.
  • Track your portfolio value over time in USD and BTC.
  • Rotate between assets with momentum strategies like GEM (see GEM / Dual Momentum).
  • Get notified on Telegram when trades fire or sessions change state.

How this manual is laid out

If you just want it running, start with Installation and Quick Start. Want to see it first? There's a live demo you can click around without installing anything.

From there, the Strategies section covers how to define trading rules, the Backtesting section covers testing them, and Live Trading covers running them for real.

When you're ready to host it properly, Production Deployment and Licensing & KeyMarley cover the server side.

A note on safety

Backtest results are not a promise of future returns. Test every strategy, start small, and never run money you can't afford to lose. Botmarley gives you the tools; the decisions are yours.