Topic: Rebol MtGox Price Alerter (Read 474 times)

Anyone familiar with the Rebol Programming language.
I've written this MtGox Reader that allows you to set upper and lower limits then monitor MtGox Prices  as quoted on Bitcoin charts.
The Procedure so far is, Get Data > Set U/L Limits >> set Alarm Values >> Monitor.

Works OK, but I'd really like to automate trading, I know I have to get a unique secret from MtGox, I know I must set an ever increasing Nonce Value, but don't fully understand what precisely I have to do as it involves changing the format of the secret MtGox string to 56 Bit Hash or something, can anyone explain in plain English what I have to do to format a string I need to send to Gox to get it to for example place a trade.
anyway, here's the code I've written so far, I've limited the number of Polls to once every 30 secs to Bitcoin charts.
EDIT the Flash command I think is better replaced by alert
as in these lines     if num1 > num2 [flash "Upper limit exceeded"]
I'll leave the code below as is so as not to confuse with updates
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REBOL [title: "MtGox Bitcoin Price Alerter"]

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;*************************************************
;***  Requires current UTC time in milliseconds
;*************************************************
across
h1 "Last used UTC Time (ms)"
return

;*************************************************
;***  Advise user to Initialise
;*************************************************
Lab "UTC" f1: field 160 "*** Unitialised ***"
f2: field 160 "http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=mtgoxUSD&start="
str1:   "http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=mtgoxUSD&start="
;*************************************************
;***  Future ability to select currency
;*************************************************
return   
Lab "Curr" ck1: radio text "USD"
ck2: radio text "GBP"
ck3: radio text "EUR"
return

;****************************************************************************************
;*** If no prior UTC time, creates one, else gets an updated one from Bitcoincharts
;*** always tries to use last used or saved  UTC time to save on download data
;****************************************************************************************
Lab "Init" btn "Get Data" [set-face f1 "Getting Data" wait 00:00:05
 
if not exists? %utc.gox [write %utc.gox ((now/Date - 01-Jan-1970) * 86400) set-face f1 "No File" set-face f2 now]
if exists? %utc.gox [set-face f1 read %utc.gox]

url1: ajoin[get-face f2 get-face f1]
set-face a1 read to-url url1
set-face f1 copy/part a1/text 10
write %utc.gox get-face f1
set-face f3 copy/part skip a1/text 11 9

wait 00:00:30
]
Lab "spare" btn "spare1"  
Lab "Price" f3:   field 80 "Price"
;*************************************************
;***
;*************************************************
return
Lab "Data" a1: area
return
across

Lab "U Lim" f4: field 120 "1000"
Lab "L Lim" f5: field 120 "0.001"
Lab "U/L % limits" f6: field 50 "0.006"
;************************************************************************************
; % limits will set upper and lower limits as a percentage of the price
; as an example MtGox charges 0.6% so limits should default to plus and minus this value at least
; as obviously you want to buy and sell at a price which covers these costs.
; but you can set the % upper and lower alarm limits to whatever you want of course..  
;*************************************************************************************
return
Lab "Alarm" btn "Set alarm Values"[
num1: to-decimal get-face f3
;num1: (num1 * get-face f6)
set-face f4 num1 * (1 + (to-decimal get-face f6))
set-face f5 num1 / (1 + (to-decimal get-face f6))

]
Lab "Auto" btn "Monitor" [ forever [
set-face f1 "Getting Data" wait 00:00:05
 
if not exists? %utc.gox [write %utc.gox ((now/Date - 01-Jan-1970) * 86400) set-face f1 "No File" set-face f2 now]
if exists? %utc.gox [set-face f1 read %utc.gox]

url1: ajoin[get-face f2 get-face f1]
set-face a1 read to-url url1
set-face f1 copy/part a1/text 10
write %utc.gox get-face f1
set-face f3 copy/part skip a1/text 11 9
num1: to-decimal get-face f3
num2: to-decimal get-face f4
num3: to-decimal get-face f5

if num1 > num2 [flash "Upper limit exceeded"]
if num1 < num3 [flash "Lower Limit Exceeded"]

;if num1 > to-decimal get-face f4 [alert "Upper limit breached"]
;if num1 < to-deciaml get-face f5 [alert "Low Limit Breached"]

wait 00:00:30
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