Auto-Market Tool Update: Now with Buying Power (Despite the Storm!)

Hey everyone,

Well, yesterday was a bit of an adventure – a major thunderstorm rolled through and knocked out my power for a good while! Thankfully, before the lights went out, I did manage to push a pretty significant update to the auto-market tool I've been working on.

Introducing: Buy Functionality for auto-market!

You might remember the auto-market tool (which includes hive-market for HBD/HIVE and engine-market for Hive-Engine tokens) was initially focused on automating sells. Thanks to some great feedback and ideas (shoutout again to @herman-german for sparking the initial expansion!), I've now added buying capabilities to both parts of the tool.

This means:

• The hive-market script can now be used to automatically buy HBD with your Hive.
• The engine-market script can now automatically buy your target Hive-Engine tokens

Both scripts now feature an --operation flag where you can specify 'buy' to use this new functionality. It works similarly to the sell side, checking your balances and market conditions to place orders.

I'll be adding a couple of screenshots here to show it in action, at least in "Dry Run" mode, once I get them processed.

This update makes the auto-market tool a more complete solution for automating basic trading tasks on both the Hive internal market and Hive-Engine. As always, the active key is required, so please use it with understanding and caution.

Where to Find It:

All the updated code, including these new buying features, is in the same GitHub repository:
https://github.com/TheCrazyGM/auto-market

The README there has the details on the arguments, including the new --operation flag.

Glad I got this pushed out before the storm hit! Hope you find the new buying options useful.

As always,
Michael Garcia a.k.a. TheCrazyGM