What to use instead of Trality

The product

Trality was a hosted bot platform with two ways to build a bot. The Code Editor, which Trality called the world's first browser-based Python bot editor, ran your Python on its servers. A bot was a set of handler functions under a @schedule decorator, with an interval and a symbol, and Trality called each one on that tick with a state and a data object. The Rule Builder assembled technical indicators into boolean rules by drag and drop, for people who did not code. Backtests were unlimited and free on every plan. A marketplace let creators rent their bots to other users.

Plans were priced by what a bot could do rather than by the bot. The 2022 pricing page ran from Pawn, free, to Queen at 59.99 euros a month. The tiers set a cap on monthly trading volume (5,000 euros on the free plan, unlimited on Queen), the smallest tick interval (60 minutes free, one minute on Queen) and the number of live bots. The homepage showed Binance, Binance.US, Bitpanda, Coinbase and Kraken as exchanges, plus margin trading on Binance accounts.

The vendor announced the end itself, on its blog, on 6 July 2023:

Today, we are announcing a very significant change: Trality will be winding down its consumer-facing product suite on July 31, 2023.

The post blamed "the current market environment" and said Trality was talking to partners about a new home for the product. From 31 July the site carried a one-line banner saying Trality "has been discontinued as of 31.7.2023".

What to use instead

Trality sold two products under one login, and they go to different places.

If you wrote Python in the Code Editor, QuantConnect Cloud is the nearest in shape. You write Python in a browser IDE, backtest on the vendor's hosted crypto data and deploy live on its servers, to six venues that include Binance, Kraken and Coinbase. The free plan backtests without limit but cannot trade live or paper-trade, so live trading means a paid seat. If you would rather own the machine, Freqtrade is free and runs one Python class as the backtest, the dry run and the live bot, with Binance and Kraken on its supported list. Jesse is the other Python framework here; backtesting is free and live trading is a closed plugin bought once. The trade-off between those two is on Freqtrade vs Jesse. OctoBot, one of Trality's own suggestions, is a self-hosted Python bot whose strategies you mostly configure in a web interface.

If you built bots in the Rule Builder, Trality's own list pointed at Coinrule and Cryptohopper, both hosted and both built around indicator conditions you assemble without code. Coinrule sells rules by the plan, with a free paper plan. Cryptohopper sells one trading bot per subscription. The third name on Trality's list, 3Commas, is carded too, but read what changed at 3Commas before you move there.

The hosted platforms are compared on 3Commas vs Cryptohopper vs Bitsgap. The whole field is on trading bots.

What you give up

Python in a browser, hosted, for ten euros a month. Trality ran your own code on its own servers at consumer prices. QuantConnect Cloud does the same job for a different buyer. Its Researcher tier shows 84 dollars a month for a recommended configuration rather than a fixed list price. Freqtrade and Jesse cost nothing to download, and you pay in a server and your own uptime.

Bitpanda. Trality connected to Bitpanda accounts. None of the picks lists Bitpanda as a supported exchange.

One place for both kinds of bot. A team where one person coded and another dragged rules together worked in one account. Every pick here is one or the other.

The marketplace, by design. Renting a bot somebody else wrote is buying a trading decision, which this catalogue does not list. Nothing on this page replaces that half, and it is not meant to.

Migration notes

The logic carries over; the code does not. A Trality bot was handlers under @schedule, reading indicator values from Trality's data object and placing orders through Trality's own functions. Freqtrade wants a strategy class over a pandas dataframe, and QuantConnect wants an algorithm class on LEAN. Rewrite the scaffolding, keep the rules, and test the indicators first: a library that warms up an RSI or a moving average differently will move every signal.

Re-run the backtest instead of trusting the old one. Trality's numbers came from Trality's engine, with its own fee and fill assumptions. A result that does not reproduce on the new platform does not tell you which one is wrong. What a crypto backtest assumes lists what to check, and how to backtest with fees and funding covers the two costs most often left out.

Mind the interval your plan bought. A strategy tuned on one-minute ticks on Queen will not behave the same on a platform whose cheap plan polls every five or ten minutes. Cryptohopper's cheapest paid plan, for example, runs a strategy every ten minutes.

Revoke the old exchange keys. Trality held API keys to your exchange accounts. Delete them at each exchange and issue new trade-only keys per platform, with withdrawals off. What your API key lets a bot do covers the permissions, and how to export exchange trade history recovers the fills Trality's dashboard used to show.