Closed gottfrois closed 3 years ago
Hi @gottfrois
Thank you for your comment :heart:
One of the viewers commented about the demo exchange(Binance testnet - https://testnet.binance.vision/) last year.
There are a few important details to consider when using the Binance testnet:
Because of the above, almost nobody uses it which is visible by looking at order book(list of all currently placed/active orders) on any popular symbol for example BTCUSDT: https://testnet.binance.vision/api/v3/depth?symbol=BTCUSDT
At the moment of writing this response there are no "bids" (buy orders; so there won't be any trades ever, so nothing on the socket for the most traded symbol on Binance):
{
"lastUpdateId":115938,
"bids":[],
"asks":[
["40000.00000000","0.32495000"],
["40768.00000000","0.00100000"],
.....
]
}
I do agree that it's important for this exercise/project for people to be able to play around without even opening a Binance account - sadly I realized it a little bit late in the series. In the 7th episode ("Mocking the Binance exchange") I went through creating a mock of Binance so nobody needs to have an account with Binance to follow along. You can't "revert back the time" with YouTube sadly, I managed to get BinanceMock much sooner inside the book - so there were lessons learnt from this.
I hope that makes sense,
Best of luck and thanks again for creating an issue
Hey mate, great work with your videos! I was wondering if you managed to use the Binance demo exchange? I tried without success as it looks like no orders are generated even from very common symbols...
Maybe I missed something, if you managed to make it work, I would love some insights or even a video about it as I think it's important to evolve in a safe demo account when working on this project rather than on the real thing.
Thanks!