Binance Plugin

Binance is a Shanghai founded digital currency exchange that supports about 200 crypto currencies and partially free API access. The Binance API plugin (Zorro S required) can be used to trade cryptocurencies with or without a Binance account; in the latter case only price data and history is available.  For trading Binance Futures a different plugin is available. 

For opening a Binance account, visit https://binance.com/ and apply. Demo accounts are not available - you must really deposit some bitcoin or dollar amount. You can set up the bitcoin symbol and the number of decimals to display in prices in the account list. For acessing your account via API, you must have 2-factor authentication enabled, and need a public and a private key since all API commands must be hash signed. The steps:

You're now all set to trade with the Binance plugin. The plugin uses API version v3 for trading, and v1 for history.

User   Binance API key, or empty for accessing live prices only
Password   Binance Secret, or empty for accessing live prices only

Accounts.csv example entry:

Binance asset symbols

The Binance plugin requires symbols in the usual forms XXX/BTC or XXXBTC, where BTC is the exchange account currency and XXX the currency to trade. An asset list AssetsBinance.csv with the main cryto currencies is included.

Supported broker commands

The Binance plugin supports the brokerCommand function with the following commands:

FOK and GTC orders are supported. More commands can be implemented on user request.

Known Binance API issues

See also:

Links, order, brokers, broker plugin, Kraken

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