Error after installation

[jajpadmakaran]

Dear Team,

Attempted installing TradeX, wherein I have followed the instructions exactly as provided... Running it via docker gives me the following output -

Creating network "tradex_default" with the default driver
Creating tradex_container ... done
Attaching to tradex_container
tradex_container | 2025-12-21 11:05:49,641 CRIT Supervisor is running as root. Privileges were not dropped because no user is specified in the config file. If you intend to run as root, you can set user=root in the config file to avoid this message.
tradex_container | 2025-12-21 11:05:49,648 INFO supervisord started with pid 1
tradex_container | 2025-12-21 11:05:50,653 INFO spawned: 'dashboard_app' with pid 8
tradex_container | 2025-12-21 11:05:50,657 INFO spawned: 'webhook_app' with pid 9
tradex_container | 2025-12-21 11:05:50,664 INFO spawned: 'email_reader' with pid 10
tradex_container | 2025-12-21 11:05:55,772 INFO success: dashboard_app entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 5 seconds (startsecs)
tradex_container | 2025-12-21 11:05:55,776 INFO success: webhook_app entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 5 seconds (startsecs)
tradex_container | 2025-12-21 11:06:00,782 INFO success: email_reader entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 10 seconds (startsecs)
Exception in thread Thread-4:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "threading.py", line 926, in _bootstrap_inner
File "threading.py", line 870, in run
File "compose/cli/log_printer.py", line 202, in watch_events
File "compose/project.py", line 626, in yield_loop
File "compose/project.py", line 594, in build_container_event
KeyError: 'id'

In this state the dashboard login page loads up fine, but after entering the password (mentioned in the .env file) it throws up -
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.

Curl POST over the domain name to the server returns - {"status":"ok"} response, however there is no trade executed as per the Binance dashboard.

Would really appreciate your help in getting TradeX running....

[Sentello]

Hi.
From your symptoms (dashboard loads, login returns 500, webhook responds {"status":"ok"} but no trades), the issue is almost certainly that the .env file wasn’t generated correctly.

Please generate credentials using the helper script outside Docker:

python generate_credentials.py

Then copy both values into your .env file:

FLASK_SECRET_KEY=...
DASHBOARD_PASSWORD=$2b$12$...

Once the .env is generated properly, the dashboard login works and TradeX operates as expected.

[jajpadmakaran]

Thank you so much for the prompt response, much appreciated.
I missed out the password generation part. My bad....

I am now able to login to the dashboard, but I see the following error while running main.py from the terminal -
2025-12-21 12:28:57,926 - ERROR - bot_logic.py:233 - ❌ Error fetching account balance or positions for binance: binance {"code":-2008,"msg":"Invalid Api-Key ID."}

Double checked the API key...

Does TradeX work with the demo trading account of Binance (https://demo.binance.com)? as the key was generated from there...
Wanted to test a few strategies on tradingview before going live...

[Sentello]

There are no built-in options or configurations for demo/testnet modes—no environment variables, flags, or code paths that enable Binance's testnet endpoints (e.g., via 'testnet': True or custom URLs like https://testnet.binancefuture.com).
To make it work with Binance demo trading, you would need to modify the code yourself in bot_logic.py during exchange initialization. For example, update the Binance client setup like this, double-check URL, I'm not sure

exchanges['binance'] = ccxt.binance({
    'apiKey': config.BINANCE_API_KEY,
    'secret': config.BINANCE_API_SECRET,
    'options': {'defaultType': 'future'},
    'urls': {'api': {'futures': 'https://testnet.binancefuture.com'}}
})

You'd also need testnet-specific API keys from Binance's testnet site. Without those changes, it won't connect to the demo environment and would attempt live trades instead.

[jajpadmakaran]

Noted, thank you..

I have now replaced the Demo account API key with the real account API key and the API key error is gone, however I get this now -

ERROR - bot_logic.py:113 - ❌ [get_pending_orders] Error fetching orders for binance: binance fetchOpenOrders() WARNING: fetching open orders without specifying a symbol has stricter rate limits(10 times more for spot, 40 times more for other markets) compared to requesting with symbol argument. To acknowledge self warning, set binance.options["warnOnFetchOpenOrdersWithoutSymbol"] = False to suppress self warning message.

Also, the balance on the TradeX dashboard shows all figures including portfolio Value as $0.00 which should not be the case.

INFO - dashboard_app.py:132 - Fetched summary stats: {'portfolio_value': 0.0, 'total_pnl': 0.0, 'margin_used': 0.0}

Thank you for all your help so far..

[jajpadmakaran]

Hi, Any thoughts on why it seems to be unable to fetch the orders and balance from Binance?

Now that there is no API key error...

[Sentello]

Hi,
I’ve fixed the issue. Please give it a try. I don’t use Binance, so I couldn’t test it on live trades.

[jajpadmakaran]

Thanks a ton, seems to work fine now... Just that the application seems to choke my ec2 instance once in a while, is there a recommended size (mem/cpu)?

[Sentello]

Buy cheep VPS, something like $10.

Regarding my setup details, I can provide some information. Note that TradeX requires almost no resources. Currently, I run it in Docker as described on the main page. The Docker server has a public IP with DNS. You need sufficient RAM to keep the container running smoothly without swapping:

CONTAINER ID   NAME                                    CPU %     MEM USAGE / LIMIT     MEM %     NET I/O           BLOCK I/O        
be9910bad86a   tradex-app                              0.00%     323.9MiB / 4.806GiB   6.58%     568kB / 653kB     35.9MB / 492kB    

I have 4 vCPUs and 5GB of RAM on my Docker server, which runs numerous apps and services, including TradeX. The internet connection on this server isn't great in terms of speed, but that doesn't affect performance much; rather, it's the latency since TradingView expects a quick response when sending webhooks. My ping to Google's DNS (8.8.8.8) is around 3-4ms, which is quite good.

[jajpadmakaran]

Noted, thank you! you have been really helpful.. Wishing you all the best!!