Quick Start

This section outlines how to configure and deploy antalla. Make sure you follow all the steps in Requirements before proceeding.

Initializing the database

Once the DB_URL is set, the database can be initialized with the following command:

antalla init-data

Exchange Listeners

Exchange listeners have been implemented for the following centralised exchanges (CEXs) and decentralised exchanges (DEXs).

CEX exchange listeners:

  • ☒ Binance

  • ☒ Coinbase Pro

  • ☒ HitBTC

  • ☐ Bitfinex

  • ☐ Gemini

  • ☐ itBit

  • ☐ bitFlyer

  • ☐ Kraken

  • ☐ Poloniex

  • ☐ Bitrex

  • ☐ Bitstamp

  • ☐ Bitmex

  • ☐ Huobi Global

DEX exchange listeners:

  • ☒ IDEX

  • ☐ EthDelta

  • ☐ DDEX

  • ☐ Kyber Network

  • ☐ Oasis Dex

For each exchange the API key and secret can be set via environment variables in the format <EXCHANGE>_API_KEY and <EXCHANGE>_API_SECRET, respectively.

Running antalla

Once the DB is initialized, antalla can be run with the following command

antalla run

This will configure antalla to obtain data from the default exchanges and markets, which are specified and can be altered in settings.py. To specify exchanges and markets via the command line, one can simply run the command:

antalla run --exchange <exchange> --markets-files <markets-files>

Examples for markets-files can be found in the \data directory.

The list of markets to listen for can be customized through the MARKET environment variable, which should be formatted as follow ETH_AURA,ETH_IDXM.

Orderbook Snapshot Analysis

By setting the subparser argument

antalla snapshot

a snapshot of each order book state will be computed and stored in the order_book_snapshots table in the db. The interval between the snapshots is set to the default value of 1 second. By setting the --exchange flag snapshots only for a set of specified exchanges will be generated.

Note

Snapshots are only generated for periods during which there has been aggregated order book data collected and no connection loss has occurred. Hence, for each period between a connection and disconnect for an exchange listener snapshots will be generated according to the set snapshot interval.

Each snapshot contains relevant metrics for the current state of the order book at the time taken. The current metrics include:

  • bid-ask spread

  • bids count

  • asks count

  • bids volume

  • asks volume

  • bid price (mean)

  • ask price (mean)

  • bid price (median)

  • ask price (median)

  • bid price (stddev)

  • ask price (stddev)

  • price and size of highest bid

  • price and size of lowest ask

The order book depth per snapshot is configurable by setting the flag: --depth <percentage>. The order book depth is specified as a percentage relative to the mid price of the order book.

Alternatively, one may use the flag --quartile, whereby snapshots are computed for the upper quartile of bids and the lower quartile of asks.

Note

By default, a snapshot will be generated for the quartile range of the order book.

Connection Handling

Currently, there is no web or command line interface for providing an overview of the state of connections to different exchanges. This will very likely be added in antalla 1.0. Nontheless, all connections and disconnections are logged in the events table in the db. In case of a disconnect, the event is logged and antalla tries to reconnect to the service. Features which make use of data (e.g. snapshots) are only applied to data within time periods between a connection and a diosconnect (or latest data in case no disconnect has occured). This is important when analysing computed statistics, as values may be skewed if they are based on data within early periods of a new connection widow if previous values have been based on an earlier window.

Visualisations

antalla comes with basic built-in functionality for generating different order book plots. However, one should note that the predominant purpose of the tool lies on data aggregation.

Order Book Plots

For generating real-time order book plots, use the command:

antalla plot-order-book --exchange <exchange> --market <market_pair>

Here, <market_pair> has the format, e.g. ETH_BTC. For a list of which markets and exchanges are valid arguments check with:

antalla plot-order-book -exchange exchange
../_images/sample_ob.png

Note

The --exchange and --market flags are required. Hence, visualising one market’s order book requires one single process.

The plots are generated, plotting all buy and sell orders that lie in a range of +-1% of the order book mid price. Alternatively one can configure the OrderBookAnalyser defined in ob_analyser.py to use a method (_get_ob_quartiles) plotting all bids which lie in the upper quartile of the total bids and all asks which lie within the lower quartile of the total asks.