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Market Making Strategy of Seizing the Market Counterattack

Market making strategy, the most basic market-making strategy: buy-sell-one-grab order to capture the market open, earning the price difference between buy and sell.

JavaScriptMarket making
Author
Zero
Complexity
Intermediate · 116 lines
Parameters
6

Market making strategy, the most basic market-making strategy: buy-sell-one-grab order to capture the market open, earning the price difference between buy and sell.

Parameters

NameDefaultWhat it controls
Interval2000Error retry interval (milliseconds)
LoopIntervaltruePolling interval (seconds)
SlidePrice0.01slippage
MaxDiff0.8Minimum spread on the market
Lot0.2Number of lots
MinStock0.0001Minimum transaction volume

Source JavaScript


function CancelPendingOrders(orderType) {
    while (true) {
        var orders = _C(exchange.GetOrders);
        var count = 0;
        if (typeof(orderType) != 'undefined') {
            for (var i = 0; i < orders.length; i++) {
                if (orders[i].Type == orderType) {
                    count++;
                }
            }
        } else {
            count = orders.length;
        }
        if (count == 0) {
            return;
        }

        for (var j = 0; j < orders.length; j++) {
            if (typeof(orderType) == 'undefined' || (orderType == orders[j].Type)) {
                exchange.CancelOrder(orders[j].Id, orders[j]);
                if (j < (orders.length-1)) {
                    Sleep(Interval);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


function updateProfit(accountInit, accountNow, ticker) {
    var netNow = accountNow.Balance + accountNow.FrozenBalance + ((accountNow.Stocks + accountNow.FrozenStocks) * ticker.Buy);
    var netInit = accountInit.Balance + accountInit.FrozenBalance + ((accountInit.Stocks + accountInit.FrozenStocks) * ticker.Buy);
    LogProfit(netNow - netInit);
}

var InitAccount = null;
var LastBuyPrice = 0;
var LastSellPrice = 0;

function onTick() {
    var ticker = _C(exchange.GetTicker);
    var BuyPrice = ticker.Buy + SlidePrice;
    var SellPrice = ticker.Sell - SlidePrice;

    // Profit Disappears
    if ((SellPrice - BuyPrice) <= MaxDiff) {
        CancelPendingOrders();
        return;
    }
  
    var cancelType = null;
    
    if (LastBuyPrice > 0 && (ticker.Buy - LastBuyPrice) > SlidePrice) {
        cancelType = ORDER_TYPE_BUY;
    }
    
    if (LastSellPrice > 0 && (LastSellPrice - ticker.Sell) > SlidePrice) {
        if (cancelType == null) {
            cancelType = ORDER_TYPE_SELL;
        } else {
            cancelType = -1;
        }
    }
    
    if (cancelType == -1) {
        CancelPendingOrders();
    } else if (cancelType != null) {
        CancelPendingOrders(cancelType);
    }

    var orders = _C(exchange.GetOrders);
    if (orders.length == 2) {
        return;
    }
    var account = _C(exchange.GetAccount);
    var amountBuy = _N(Math.min(account.Balance / BuyPrice, Lot));
    var amountSell = Math.min(account.Stocks, Lot);

    if (amountBuy >= MinStock) {
        if (orders.length == 0 || orders[0].Type == ORDER_TYPE_SELL) {
            if (orders.length > 0) {
                updateProfit(InitAccount, account, ticker);
            }
            exchange.Buy(BuyPrice, amountBuy);
            LastBuyPrice = BuyPrice;
        }
    }
    if (amountSell >= MinStock) {
        if (orders.length == 0 || orders[0].Type == ORDER_TYPE_BUY) {
            if (orders.length > 0) {
                updateProfit(InitAccount, account, ticker);
            }
            exchange.Sell(SellPrice, amountSell);
            LastSellPrice = SellPrice;
        }
    }
}

function onexit() {
    CancelPendingOrders();
}

function main() {
    InitAccount = _C(exchange.GetAccount);
    Log(InitAccount);
    SetErrorFilter("502:|503:|unexpected|network|timeout|WSARecv|Connect|GetAddr|no such|reset|received|EOF");
    exchange.SetRate(1);
    LoopInterval = Math.max(LoopInterval, 1);
    Lot = Math.max(MinStock, Lot);
    while (true) {
        onTick();
        Sleep(LoopInterval * 1000);
    }
}

Published by Zero on the FMZ strategy square · last modified 2018-03-27. Collected in the Quant Trading Vault. Unvalidated research: re-test with your own data and costs before trusting it.

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