Kraken Trading Bot

About Kraken

Kraken was launched in September 2013 by Jesse Powell in San Francisco and is one of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges still operating. It has grown partly by acquisition, most notably of Crypto Facilities, which became Kraken Futures.

Kraken Futures was the first regulated entity to list futures on Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash, and offers transparent 24/7 trading on a range of cryptocurrency derivatives. We connect to both the spot exchange and the futures venue.

For automation, Kraken's appeal is stability rather than breadth: the API is dependable and well documented, which matters more than raw pair count when a bot has to run unattended for weeks. The spot and futures venues are separate integrations on our side, so you can run a spot grid and a hedging futures strategy side by side. Note that Kraken Futures is a separate platform with its own margin: funds do not move between it and the spot exchange on their own, so size each side on its own balance.

Strategies you can run on Kraken

• Arbitrage: exploit price differences between two connected venues, so it needs a second exchange
• DCA: average into a position on a schedule or on drawdown triggers
• Grid trading: ladder orders through a range and work the swings inside it
• Market making: quote both sides and earn the spread
• Ping pong: buy a level, sell the next one up, repeat
• Scalping: short-horizon entries and exits on your own tick interval
• Signals: trade an external webhook, from TradingView or your own source, with each incoming signal firing the bot immediately
• WaveRunner: grid trading with anchor-scale safety and auto re-anchoring
• Zone recovery: hedge a losing position rather than close it, and work back to flat
• Custom HaasScript: Lua-based, 750+ built-in commands, visual or full-script editors

Kraken's spot and derivatives markets are separate integrations on our side, so one set of API keys gives your bots both order books and a spot strategy and a leveraged one can run side by side.

Every strategy can be backtested against historical Kraken data before you commit capital, and you can connect an AI assistant through our MCP server to audit and write strategies in conversation.