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Beginners & Help / Bot consistently losing money with its trades

« on: January 20, 2018, 02:58:55 PM »

I have had my bot running on Poloniex more or less non-stop for the last few months. I was under the impression that everything was working fine until I today downloaded all the bots trade history and analyzed it.

I found, to my horror, that the bot is slowly but steadily eating away at my account balance and loses money pretty much every day.

This plot shows a running sum (cumulative sum) of the bots daily total sell amount in BTC minus the total daily bought BTC amount. So if the bots sells for more than it buys, this should be positive, which it basically has never been, apart for getting lucky at the start of January when altcoins exploded for a few days.



I’m using the BB – Stepgain strategy with the following settings on Gunbot XT 7.02:

TRADING_LIMIT 0.02
FUNDS_RESERVE 0.001
PERIOD 5
BUY_LEVEL 0.6
GAIN 2.15
EMA1 24
EMA2 48
HIGH_BB 40
LOW_BB 40
STDV 2
SMAPERIOD 30
SELLLVL1 1.5
SELLLVL2 2.5
SELLLVL3 70
SELLLVL 2
PANIC_SELL OFF
DOUBLE_UP OFF
DOUBLE_UP_CAP 1
DU_CAP_COUNT 1
DU_METHOD HIGHBB
DU_BUYDOWN 2
RSI_BUY_ENABLED OFF
RSI_SELL_ENABLED OFF
RSI_BUY_LEVEL 30
RSI_SELL_LEVEL 70
STOP_LIMIT 60
BUY_ENABLED ON
OKKIES_MODE ON
BTC_MONEY_FLOW 35
MIN_VOLUME_TO_BUY 0.0001
MIN_VOLUME_TO_SELL 0.0001
TRADES_TIMEOUT 450
SELL_ENABLED ON
TA_ALWAYS_ON OFF

Could anyone tell me why in the name of all that is holy the bot seems to sell at a loss when I have asked it to sell with a gain of 2.15 %?

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Technical Support & Development / Error as soon as strategy starts

« on: November 24, 2017, 04:21:29 PM »

I have been running Gunbot XT for a few weeks now and never had any errors. But now, as soon as I start the bot my error window fills up with this:



I am using the same strategy as I always have been so I’m not doing anything new. I’ve tried restarting Gunbot and the computer multiple times but still I get the same thing.

Does anyone know what this is about and how I can solve it?

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Technical Support & Development / Not a single trade in weeks of continuous running

« on: November 14, 2017, 07:52:16 PM »

I bought Gunbot a few weeks ago and ran it for a couple of days with the bolinger band strategy on Poloniex. The bot seems to be running but it never bought or sold anything at all during the time I ran it, so I made a post on this forum and someone said that the version I was using was likely bugged. So I just waited for a new version to come and hopefully fix it.

Now that the new version is here I have been running Gunbot XT non-stop for about a week on 3 pairs, and still it hasn’t made a single trade. All Im getting is "Scanning poloniex for trading opportunities" and a heartbeat from the exchange, over and over again.

Does anyone have a clue what could cause that? And could someone send me the settings they use to get several trades per day so that I can try them and see if I can get the bot to give me some signs of functionality at all?

The settings I’m using now are:

bb      {19}

   NAME   :   bb

   TRADING_LIMIT   :   0.001

   PERIOD   :   1

   BUY_LEVEL   :   0.6

   GAIN   :   0.6

   EMA1   :   24

   EMA2   :   12

   HIGH_BB   :   40

   LOW_BB   :   40

   STDV   :   2

   SMAPERIOD   :   20

   PANIC_SELL   :   false

   DOUBLE_UP   :   false

   DOUBLE_UP_CAP   :   1

   STOP_LIMIT   :   60

   BUY_ENABLED   :   true

   MIN_VOLUME_TO_BUY   :   0.0001

   MIN_VOLUME_TO_SELL   :   0.0001

   TRADES_TIMEOUT   :   600

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Technical Support & Development / Unable to get v5.05 to work: Error: Invalid start time.

« on: October 07, 2017, 08:45:46 AM »

I got the bot yesterday and I’ve been running v5.04 for about a day now on BB strategy (5 min period 40/40 buy/sell) but it hasn’t made any trades at all, even thought the charts show plenty of opportunity it seems.

So I decided to try v5.05 and see if it’s a bug that has been patched already, but when I start v5.05 I keep getting the error:

“Error on strategy BB for BTC_ETH on poloniex while getting ema2 -\ Error: Invalid start time.”

Does anyone know what that is about? There seems to be no start time related settings in the config file..

Thanks.