Hi Steem! I'm pingu2k4 - A systems designer at a large Games company, with a passion for cryptocurrencies, programming, machine learning and a mix of all of the above!

Hi Steem!

I'm pingu2k4 - unsurprisingly, I first used this handle in 2004. It's kind of just stuck. The 2k4 part is kind of embarrassing at times, but not the pingu part. I embrace everything pingu.

So, I am a systems designer - What is that? I spend the majority of my time in excel, or programming. I do all the "backend maths" to the designs of upcoming games (no, I can't talk about them). Want to put combat in your game? You're going to need some formulas behind them - and I'm your guy - crafting experiences through maths to meet design requirements. Plenty of time is spent balancing systems after the formulas are created.

What else?

Well, I used to play a bunch of poker, I love programming (C# mainly) and if something can either be competitive or considered a logical problem, then I will probably love it.

Outside of my work, I HAVE to keep myself busy. I always have projects on the go, and keep a Trello board tracking all my projects - past present and future. That board is clearly private, however I did recently start off a tools board - Any tools I create which may be useful to somebody else I put up there. So far, I just have an excel sheet, which can be used to create multiple 3D scatter charts (something which excel itself doesn't have built in),  based on data in a table, comparing all attributes in the table with each other in every possible combination of 3.

What am I doing right now?

Right now? my projects are all based around crypto, crypto trading, and the automation of such trading. I am using Binance exchange (they have lower fees than most, especially with their reduced fees til the end of Feb). I went looking on GitHub for someone who had created an API wrapper for them, and there was plenty of choice! (Unlike some other exchanges) which also factored into my reason for choosing Binance. In the end, I settled with sonvister's implementation.

Around sonvister's API wrapper, I have created my own wrapper. It comes as a result of my first very messy project, which I had to scrap due to unmaintainability, difficulty debugging etc. So I created what I named "BinanceBase". It provides one-line calls into any part of Sonvister's API wrapper, has its own built in logger, lays out some of the basic UI in the console already, has a commands system - allowing me to type in commands at runtime, to change things etc. After configuring, connecting to the Binance exchange etc, it spins up 2 loops. One is the "action loop", which is where all the code for my trading strategy lies. The other is the input loop, which waits for a command to be entered, and when entered it actions it accordingly. New actions are super simple to create! It also has the code to calculate the values for 8 different trading indicators based on candlestick data (moving averages, MACD, RSI, etc). So, I create a project template of BinanceBase, and its a huge headstart on creating a new strategy - just put in the trading logic and you're done!

Have I made a profitable bot yet? No. But all I've really lost is time, and the odd $1 here or there testing out a few strategies. If you find something that makes just an average of 1% per day, that's huge! the compound interest on that is massive over time... (And yes - I have a spreadsheet for that!)

Got any automated trading tips? I'm all ears!