EVE Online Tradebot!

Programmed with c++.

Alas, the process of programming this monstrosity and the tens of billions of ISK it earned me contributed to the feeling of 'beating the game' and made me lose much interest in EVE.

Some features include:
1) The ability to use scroll bars (very important!).
2) Trading algorithms resistant to market manipulation (Indeed, tradebot will not always bid 0.01ISK lower than you, so don't even try).
3) Auto relisting / overcutting / undercutting.
4) Minimum profit margins.
5) Ability to handle as many market orders as necessary. (Fortunately, I only had the skills to handle 53, and could never be bothered to buy a character with better trading skills).
6) Able to handle items and ships.
7) Ability to rapidly force a market toward equilibrium and squeeze out annoying competitors if necessary.
8) Tireless.
9) You can't do anything else on the computer while it is running (This is a feature since it forces you to go outside!).
10) Unique. You won't find a source code that even remotely resembles this one, and you never will.
11) The potential for real money trading (RMT). This was very tempting, considering how much ISK it earned, but whatever. Were I living in a third world nation, Tradebot could easily sustain me and a family. Knowing how to program is a form of empowerment.

Some interesting history:
Tradebot was initially inspired by people scamming each other in Jita. I toyed with the idea of a scambot, but I realised that trading had the potential to be much more lucrative, and programming it would be far more educational.


EVE Online, Tradebot, C++, High frequency trading, It exists

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• EVE Online
• Tradebot
• C++
• High frequency trading
• It exists
• Trading bot

[Blindeamon]

LOL looked at this a 2nd time, look at how fast the chat box at the bottom of the screen is flashing and how fast the time goes by, obvious fake of a bot.

[askuriel]

@Blindeamon ...... You mean it wasn't immediately obvious that this is a time lapse of Tradebot in action?

[TheParrotOne]

The cancer that's killing eve.

[askuriel]

@TheParrotOne The same cancer is 'killing' financial markets in real life, just so you know. :D

[marxula555]

the pic quality is too low to confirm it as a real tradebot, the chat channels minimised are blinking really fast for normal time, but that could be from a low framerate on the program used to record and upload this. if the scrollbar on the right is indeed in time with the clock, and orders then this is absolutely beautiful and i congratulate you for breaking the market, however, your contacts logging off and on is happening too fast to be in real time, which shows a time elapse speedup

[jlmdfnbo]

You are a sad, sad person.

[ghostiman]

@askuriel What was the point? Real life has pretty much nothing to do with eve.

[mereporstu]

@SunFx great job.

[GyrosHunter]

@askuriel

Is that a justification of any kind?

[Broneher]

От такого количества запросов канеш не спалишся)))

[Cryton12345]

I never knew trade bots existed, I know spam bots and rat bots where there but trade bots, that's a new one awsome work I wish I could have it :)

[SunFx]

This inspired me to start my own market bot. I've written mine in C#. It has indeed been a great learning experience, and is rather profitable to boot. So far, my bot only can do 1, 2, 3(but no relisting yet) 4, 5, 8, 9, 10. I intend to add the ability to create new buy and sell orders and eventually, to automatically search new commodities to trade and to also automatically cancel under-preforming buy orders to make room for better orders.

[SBFloppie]

@snero3 I'm blaming computers and programs for ONE crash, yes. Because it's well-documented that THAT sudden drop was caused by them. Just because you can cite plenty of speculative bubbles over the course of human history doesn't mean that trading programs can't crap up the system.

The difference between the tulip bubble (or real estate, or dotcom, or telecom) and the 15-minute crash is that the latter had nothing to do with a correction. It was a BUG.

[snero3]

@SBFloppie Your kidding right? Your blaming computers and trading algorithms solely for a market crash? I think you need to do a little research (google "tulips stock market crash"). These kinds of "crashes" corrections have been happening for hundreds of years (yes hundreds).

Even without computers day trading is hard. Trading (in general) is ALWAYS going to be hard if it was easy every one would be rich and retire at 15. It is hard to trade by yourself hence the reason for brokers.