Why Binance and BitMex?

If you’ve had any experience with the cryptocurrency market you know that the answer to this question is obvious:

Binance is the most popular exchange on the market BitMex is the largest volume exchange on the market.

And as we know, large volume equals big data and big data (usually) equals better modeling and predictions, especially for machine learning models.

Please note that you don’t have to buy any Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency whatsoever to perform the steps in this article. The reason we need to sign up is that once signed up you’ll have access to their APIs, which is what we’re gonna be using for getting the actual data.

You can choose either or both, the functions introduced below are flexible to both exchanges.