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Cryptonose is a tool useful in Cryptocurrency trading

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Manual

I’ve tried to make Cryptonose easy to use, but in case I’ve failed, here is the manual ;)

First run

After first run, you will see main application window with price alerts tab. No alerts will occur unless you start any of supported exchanges. To do so, click on Add exchange… and choose an exchange.

Cryptonose needs to know on which currency pairs it should track price changes. This is not configured so far so you will be asked to do it. There are two sections in pairs selection window:

cryptonose paris configuration

Note that choosing a lot of currency pairs will cause longer initialization (Cryptonose needs to get chart data from the exchange). Bitfinex has quite strict limits for downloading chart data - getting data for one currency pair will take at least 18 seconds.
Very low volume (so with low liquidity) currency pairs could trigger a lot of undesirable price alerts. You should choose currency pairs carefully.

Main window

Price alerts tab

cryptonose price alerts tab

What is relative price change?

Relative price change is an indicator reflecting price change in given period in comparison to the average price change in the same time periods in past. The “past” is set to 50 periods. More technically this average is a median of absolute differences between high and low of past periods (candles). To visualize, example values of relative price change:

Price alert

cryptonose price alert

Blocking alerts

You can block subsequent alerts for currency pairs using a block button that’s next to the pair name in the alerts tab. Blocked means that you will not see or hear any price alert on given currency pair. Blocks for specified time (1 hour, 2 hours etc.) will not persist if you close Cryptonose and run it again, but block for an unspecified time will.

You can see and remove alert blocks using clicking on Manage blocks button. You can also do the same using Alert blocks… button in the exchange tab.

Exchange tab

cryptonose exchange tab

What exactly are price changes in Cryptonose?

Price change in Cryptonose is based on maximum (positive or negative) change during recent time period (5 minutes or 30 minutes). You should not confuse it with a change between beginning and ending of the period. For example if price 5 minutes ago was 2.0, then it went up to 4.0 and now it dropped slightly to 3.7, 5m price change values will be calculated for biggest rise - from 2.0 to 4.0 - in percents it’s +100%.

Search for a currency pair

cryptonose search

A button to show search interface (Find (press F)…) is always visible at the top of the Cryptonose window. You can click on it or just press F key to start typing, to find desired currency pair. It’s designed to let you access exchange page quickly - just press enter to go to the page for the top pair in the search results or use arrow keys to select another pair before pressing enter. You can also do use a double-click.

When you’ve finished your search, press ESC or click on (Find (press F)…) button to hide the interface. Also, it will be hidden automatically if you start interacting with the rest of the Cryptonose interface.

Pinned tickers

In currency pairs search table you can see a Pin option. If you pin currency pair, you will see a small box with real-time price and mini-chart - that’s a pinned ticker. Tickers will appear in the same order as their currency pairs were pinned. Pinned currency pairs will also be placed at the top in search table.

There’s a limit of a 10 visible pinned tickers. If you pin more - the most recent ones just won’t be shown.

Coins plugins

You can find small buttons with colored text on the price alerts tab and currency pairs tables. Currently, there are 2 buttons - plugins:

coingecko plugin

cryptopanic plugin

Alerts conditions

The predefined values should be useful. You may want to try them before considering any changes. Try starting with the Low settings and then switching to the next presets if the alerts are to frequent.

Price alert is triggered by:

Example

cryptonose alert threshold

These settings are quite flexible. If you’re only interested in percent changes, you can set the required relative change to 0, and sufficient relative change to a highest possible value, which is 100.

Alerts logic settings

Cryptonose liquidity factor

Cryptonose liquidity factor is a very simple indicator that could help filter out alerts on currency pairs that are not liquid (and because of that - usually volatile in undesirable way). For given period (5m, 30m) liquidity factor is:

(number-of-periods-where-price-changed) / (number-of-periods)

Number of periods is 50, same as for calculating relative change.

To sum up, low value of liquidity factor for given currency pair means that there were recently many periods when price didn’t change.

Notification

cryptonose notification

You can click on the notification to run web browser. Notification shows details of price alert: percent change, relative change, time period, real change period, final price.

Comments for Uniswap V3 support

Cryptonose has a support for the Uniswap V3 providing prices of the Uniswap assets in USD. The prices are approximate (but not out-of-date, with a delay of few seconds maximum) because of a data source used. They should be good enough for for the user to keep track of the markets and use price alerts.