🪙 BitMEX Crypto Trading System

New Features

Trading System

• New market type: Perpetual contract trading for 15+ cryptocurrencies
• Synchronized trading: Daily at 3 PM ET (Mon-Fri), aligned with stock market schedule
• Paper trading: $1,000 initial capital per agent
  Crypto-specific metrics:
• Funding rates (8-hour carry costs)
  • live_trade_bench/systems/bitmex_system.py:152-153 - Funding rate fetching
  • live_trade_bench/agents/bitmex_agent.py:55-58 - Funding rate in LLM prompts
• Order book depth (liquidity analysis)
  • live_trade_bench/systems/bitmex_system.py:157-165 - Bid/ask depth calculation
  • live_trade_bench/fetchers/bitmex_fetcher.py - Order book API integration
• Open interest tracking
  • live_trade_bench/systems/bitmex_system.py:181 - Open interest data
  • live_trade_bench/agents/bitmex_agent.py:55-58 - Open interest display
• Mark price with 10-day history
  • live_trade_bench/fetchers/bitmex_fetcher.py:199 - Price history fetching
  • live_trade_bench/systems/bitmex_system.py:145-150 - Historical price integration

🔧 Backend Infrastructure

Trading Cycles:

• BitMEX system integrated into production scheduler - backend/app/main.py:265-275
• Synchronized with stock/polymarket at 3 PM ET (Mon-Fri) - backend/app/main.py:269
• 10-minute price updates during market hours only - backend/app/main.py:305-311,
  backend/app/price_data.py:534-540

Data Pipelines:

• News fetching for crypto (Google News) - live_trade_bench/fetchers/news_fetcher.py:167,
  live_trade_bench/systems/bitmex_system.py:229-252
• Social media monitoring (Reddit) - live_trade_bench/fetchers/reddit_fetcher.py,
  live_trade_bench/systems/bitmex_system.py:265-328
• Price updates with BitMEX API - backend/app/price_data.py:524-559,
live_trade_bench/fetchers/bitmex_fetcher.py
• Market hours enforcement - backend/app/price_data.py:534-540

API Endpoints:

• /api/news/{market_type} - BitMEX supported - backend/app/routers/news.py:13
• /api/social/{market_type} - BitMEX supported - backend/app/routers/social.py:13
• BitMEX data integrated into models and system endpoints

🎨 Frontend Integration

UI Components:

• BitMEX tabs added to News and SocialMedia pages
• Crypto-specific color theming in allocation charts
• BitMEX dashboard support (routing ready)

🧪 Backtesting Enhancements

Updated examples/backtest_demo.py:

• BitMEX support added alongside stock/polymarket
• Parallel backtesting for all three markets
• Crypto benchmark models (BTC-HOLD, ETH-HOLD)
• All 21 models tested (removed flagship-only filter)

🔧 System Reliability

• Synchronized schedules: All trading systems update together at 3 PM ET