Passivbot

Passivbot operates on perpetual futures markets, automatically creating and cancelling limit buy and sell orders on the user’s behalf; the README’s exchange list is Bybit, OKX, Bitget, Bitunix, GateIO, Binance, Kucoin, Hyperliquid and WEEX. It is explicit about not forecasting — rather than predicting price movements or following trends, it acts as a contrarian market maker using price bands, EMA-derived context and risk controls. Order planning runs in a Rust orchestrator shared by live trading and backtesting, so the two stay consistent, and an included optimizer iterates thousands of backtests over candidate configurations, converging with an evolutionary algorithm.

The strategy’s risk should be stated plainly rather than inferred from the name. It is Martingale-inspired: the README describes making a small initial entry and doubling down on losing positions multiple times to bring the average entry price closer to current price action, placing the orders as a grid. An unstucking mechanism realizes small losses on stuck positions while capping drawdown below a set percentage of peak balance, and a Forager component dynamically chooses which approved markets may open positions, pruning low relative-volume candidates and ranking the rest by quote volume, EMA readiness and one-minute log-range volatility. The README opens with “used at one’s own risk”.

Installation is from a clone only — there is no passivbot package on PyPI — and it requires a Rust toolchain, since every install profile builds the Rust extension and registers the passivbot command. Use python3 -m pip install -e ".[full]" in place of the plain editable install for backtesting and optimization work. Python 3.12 and 3.14 are supported and 3.13 explicitly is not. The current line is v8 (v8.1.0, August 2026), which the README calls a breaking config and strategy release: do not start v8 live with an unreviewed v7 config.