diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3997718..2485cb1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-eventemitter==0.2.0
 asyncio==3.4.3
 websockets==7.0
 pylint==2.3.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a58a2f1..70e230b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,15 +46,10 @@ setup(
     python_requires='>=3.0.0, <4',
     # deps installed by pip
     install_requires=[
-        'eventemitter==0.2.0',
-        'asyncio==3.4.3',
-        'websockets==7.0',
-        'pylint==2.3.0',
-        'pytest-asyncio==0.10.0',
-        'six==1.12.0',
-        'pyee==8.0.1',
-        'aiohttp==3.4.4',
-        'isort==4.3.21'
+        'asyncio~=3.0',
+        'websockets~=7.0',
+        'aiohttp~=3.0',
+        'pyee~=8.0'
     ],
     project_urls={
         'Bug Reports': 'https://github.com/bitfinexcom/bitfinex-api-py/issues',