🐙 Kraken-DCA

Automated dollar cost averaging on the Kraken exchange

Table of Contents

1. ➤ About the project
   • Orders
2. ➤ Configuration
3. ➤ Push Notifications
4. ➤ Run with Docker
   • Docker-CLI
   • Docker-Compose
5. ➤ Run without Docker

🔍 About the project

Since Kraken has extremely high fees for its crypto savings plan, this tool was developed to invest regularly in cryptocurrencies. Since Kraken offers two platforms: ‘Kraken’ and ‘Kraken Pro’, we take advantage of the fact that Kraken Pro has very low fees. All you have to do is regularly deposit fiat currencies on Kraken Pro and the bot does everything else for you.

💰 Orders

When will orders be placed?

Bitcoin orders are placed as often as possible. To illustrate the behaviour in more detail, let's look at the following example: You deposit €500 per month on Kraken-Pro. The bot calculates how often you can buy Bitcoin this month, as Kraken has a minimum purchase limit of 0.0001 BTC. Your orders are executed as often as possible throughout the month, thereby achieving dollar-cost averaging.

⚙️ Configuration

This tool is configured via environment variables. Some environment variables are required and some activate additional functionalities.

Variable	Description	Required	Default
KRAKEN_PUBLIC_KEY	Your Kraken API public key	✅
KRAKEN_PRIVATE_KEY	Your Kraken API private key	✅
CURRENCY	Your fiat currency to be used, e.g. USD or EUR	❌	USD
KRAKEN_ORDER_SIZE	The order size to be used. This value should only be edited if you know exactly what you are doing.	❌	0.0001
LIMIT_ORDER_MODE	If set to true, limit orders are placed. With a normal monthly volume, you only pay 0.25% fees per purchase instead of 0.4%.	❌	false
CHECK_DELAY	How often the algorithm should be executed, in seconds.	❌	60
GOTIFY_URL	URL to your Gotify server	❌
GOTIFY_APP_TOKEN	App token for the app on the Gotify server	❌

📱 Push Notifications

The environment variables GOTIFY_URL and GOTIFY_APP_TOKEN can be used to activate Gotify Push Notifications. As soon as a purchase has been made, you will immediately receive a notification so that you always have a full overview of your purchases.

🐳 Run with Docker

Docker-CLI

docker run -d --name kraken_dca \
  -e KRAKEN_PUBLIC_KEY=your-public-key \
  -e KRAKEN_PRIVATE=your-private-key \
  -e CURRENCY=EUR \
  ghcr.io/primexz/kraken_dca:latest

🚀 Docker-Compose

vim docker-compose.yml

version: "3.8"
services:
  kraken_dca:
    image: ghcr.io/primexz/kraken_dca:latest
    environment:
      - KRAKEN_PUBLIC_KEY=your-public-key
      - KRAKEN_PRIVATE_KEY=your-private-key
      - CURRENCY=EUR
    restart: always

docker-compose up -d

💻 Run without Docker

This tool can be run directly with Go for development.

KRAKEN_PUBLIC_KEY=your-public-key KRAKEN_PRIVATE_KEY=your-private-key go run .