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Technical Support & Development / Re: My Gunbot 5.0.4 is not making any buy or sell

« on: September 19, 2017, 07:28:00 AM »

Its all up to the pairs, not the bot. I runs the way you set it. Firstly, it runs with a gain of 2, which ATM is a bit unrealistic (untill the BB are calculated with enough data). Secondly, the bot's Bollinger bands don't correspond exactly to what you are showed on your exchange. You may see a buying opportunity, the bot doesn't. Synching BBs is a feat I have not accomplished yet, so I turned to setting BBs closer together and making gain only a half % plus fees. Like 45vs45, with gain set to 0.85 for instance. No doubling up. Double up is an averageing tool to be used on coin drops. It as was still not predictable enough (tho a simple setting still getting me some profit), so I learned to use stepgain and just wait for the bot to make it+s thing. I now get fewer trades, but still getting about 1 percent a day. This is quite an accomplishment for me, but there are gurus making way more.

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Beginners & Help / Re: Bittrex minimum sell limit prevented GB switching to buy mode

« on: September 19, 2017, 07:13:35 AM »

Dust. A nuissance, to trade with dusty accounts switch to v. 504. It has a setting for handling dust in the strategies: "MIN_VOLUME_TO_BUY": 0.00x,   "MIN_VOLUME_TO_SELL": 0.00x (volume to be set higher than dust in ALT account)

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Technical Support & Development / Re: Error: Missing boughtPrice

« on: September 16, 2017, 07:13:04 PM »

I am getting this error on 5.0.4 for several pairs.

How do I manually override it in config.js?

there is an example way down on the bottom of the config.

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Technical Support & Development / Re: Gunbot 5.0 BB calculation

« on: September 16, 2017, 09:10:00 AM »

switch to 504.

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Beginners & Help / Re: Can someone explain this "Price to Buy"

« on: September 16, 2017, 08:55:40 AM »

gain interferes with BB. at what point is dependent on both BB and gain settings. I remember mr. G. somehwre showing a way to make gain not interfere with BB (or to a lesser extent), sadly don't remember how it was set.
I take this as a safety feature. If the Bollinger bands come close, which happens, gain setting will assure you don't loose money.
At least I see it this way. Mr. G. builds a lot of safety features into the bot as to make sure beginers don't start with loosing money. Loosing money comes later, with more experience ... 

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Beginners & Help / Re: Question about GAIN. is it really minimum, or constant?

« on: September 15, 2017, 07:43:40 PM »

Now the only thing I want to be sure about is the correctness of the sentence next to "New STEPGAIN" at mainscreen.

It says both buy and selllevels (1,2,3) are % over/under EMA.. Is this correct? Appears I have studied info on older versions which mixed my mind.

I want GB sell my existing coins.
After setting "Sell" parameter to "STEPGAIN" and setting sell levels, should I do anything else to make SMART mode do its thing?

Smart mode is activated with stepgain, theres no command I'm aware of.
Buy levels are according to lowest EMA, sell levels however are in relation to bought price.

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Beginners & Help / Re: Question about GAIN. is it really minimum, or constant?

« on: September 15, 2017, 03:06:28 PM »

And after it reached to 48xx, GB throw the sell order, at 4544 !!! Instead of already high 48 or 47xx... 

Since the GUI says "minimum %GAIN you want to sell....), I was hoping it could sell with the latest price or something around it..

Am I doing something wrong here? Is it possible/wise to try to prevent this happen again? If yes, how?

Ha! You got your gain, 1.9%, which is not to be sneered at, and nothing wrong with that. If you can master that consistently every day, in a year you will be substantially wealthier than you are now.
But to answer your question, in the described case it would maybe be smarter to learn implement stepgain. Or use a combination, bbstepgain for example. The bot will buy on bb and sell on stepgain, meaning you set selllevel to an number between 1 and 2 (or 3, depending on version used) and the bot will wait to start selling at the desired level. All (2 or 3) levels again you can customize to your liking. say you put selllevel1,2 and 3 to 0.5%, 3% and 10%, and selllevel to 2, the bot will wait to achieve at least 3% of gain.

I take it you have not read the github instructions fro the master himself, so I'll paste a little somenthing about stepgain for you from the instructions on version 3.2:

Pure STEPGAIN: BUY_STRATEGY: 'STEPGAIN' and SELL_STRATEGY: 'STEPGAIN' in your config files, will give you the power to explore up and down until the bot finds the best price to buy and the highest price to sell (supergun trend watchdog applies with improved algo). All of this on all 3 markets: Bittrex, Kraken, Poloniex. We have now 2 levels of BUY and 2 levels of SELL only in config files, since the third has not been really useful. Set BUYLVL and SELLLVL to the right level you want to use. Example: if you have BUYLVL1 to 3 and BUYLVL2 to 5, set BUYLVL to 2 if you want to explore from to 5%to infinite, or set BUYLVL to 1 if you want to explore from 3% to infinite.

Updated in 3.3

Introducing dynamic levels for stepgain: now the bot takes in consideration 3 levels to buy and sell instead of 2 and using the "SMART" function (enabled by default) it can now use all 3 levels as a fallback chain if the price fails to reach desired level. Basically: in the previous stepgain strategies we only used 2 levels effectively: now all levels are taken in consideration. Pros of this change: you dont have to set buylvl or selllvl anymore: the bot updates the level dynamically as long as the price swings up and down

The setting of buylelvel and selllevel is introduced again in later versions, IE., it's present in the newest versions, 50x.

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Technical Support & Development / Re: All Settings on 4.0.5

« on: September 14, 2017, 07:56:43 AM »

Switch to 503, double up "false" for starters all strategies, careful pair selection (select strong pairs= good volume and good volatility, not a pair with downward trend going on forever).  Set gaines high enough to cover fees and get only modest profit.
Make more trades  with small profit, it adds up. Trading limit set to a number high enough so that the bot can run at least 10 pairs, more is better. Run sideways pairs on bb and upward pairs on bbstepgain, or stepgain (or even leave bb, if you are lazy). Rid the bags on special strategies using averigeing tools on ovrride. Try to clear only one bag at a time (or wait it out). Patience (G'n'R, 1989), some whiskey (also preferably from around 1990).

Gunthar's own recipe to rid bags // (use these settings plus enable DOUBLE UP in override on offending pair):
Example of strategy to get rid of bags //(maybe skip buy level, 503 doesn't have this setting in bb, but you get general idea, no?)

"strategies": {
"bb": {
"PERIOD": 15,
"BUY_LEVEL": 0.1,
"GAIN": 0.6,
"HIGH_BB": 60,
"LOW_BB": 40,
"PANIC_SELL": false
}
Change to this configuration once you got rid of your bags

"strategies": {
"bb": {
"PERIOD": 15,
"BUY_LEVEL": 0.1,
"GAIN": 0.6,
"HIGH_BB": 40,
"LOW_BB": 40,
"PANIC_SELL": false
}
Disclaimer: you need capital to average down. Rather you are able to deposit more bitcoin at your exchange account or you need some immediate liquidity from existing bags. How much capital or how much liquidity you need to start using this strategy? Same amount in BTC (or primary coin) of one of your bags: say you have a list of 10 bags > deposit BTC (or primary coin) amount equal to ONE OF YOUR BAGS HOLDING VALUE IN BTC (i.e. if one of your bags is ETH and its value in BTC is 0.02BTC: deposit 0.02BTC), or sell one of your bags (any of your choice) at market price so to give your account an immediate liquidity, if you are unable to deposit more BTC (or primary coin). You dont need to deposit a lot of BTC (or primary coin) to average down your bags: it is enough to cover just one bag only and your GUNBOT will start a chain of bags-recovering, getting liquidity as it sells your bags. Keep this in mind by now on when you use GUNBOT: dont use all your capital, GUNBOT will need a reserve in case averaging down is needed because market conditions.

Ah, forgot, once running, do not stop the bot!

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General Discussion / Re: EMA1 & EMA2 setting in Gunbot RC v4.0.5

« on: September 11, 2017, 09:10:42 PM »

set them to 4 and 2. it is not really involved in bb calculations, but it needs to be in.

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General Discussion / Re: Gunbot v5.0.1 - Poloniex/Bittrex/Kraken/Cryptopia - Core Edition - AllOs_x64 wit

« on: September 11, 2017, 10:34:56 AM »

started on Kraken from first turn of the key, awesome ...

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Beginners & Help / Re: What is the best strategy to generate the most amount of trades?

« on: September 08, 2017, 12:32:49 PM »

I've had some success with pure BB, 45hi, 45 lo, and a small gain number (0.6 to 0.. Choose a pair with enough swings, that helps also.

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Beginners & Help / Re: 3600 cycles and no trade

« on: September 08, 2017, 12:30:50 PM »

I second cryptoyticks, go pure BB, 45 on 45, set gain low. it will produce small gain trades, provided the volatility of the pair is present with enough swings.

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Beginners & Help / Re: EMA 1 and EMA 2 for Poloniex

« on: September 08, 2017, 12:26:20 PM »

on v405 I got errors on using pure BB with the EMA lines left out. as soon I pasted those lines into the strategy, no more errors.

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Technical Support & Development / Re: 4.0.5 definitive settings?

« on: September 07, 2017, 04:58:57 PM »

To be honest, I'm not sure. Still have not figured it out, at least not the nuances. As mentioned, I picked up those EMA settings from the forum here. There wasn't any explanation I'm aware of, just, you know, set it up like this.

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Technical Support & Development / Re: 4.0.5 definitive settings?

« on: September 07, 2017, 09:24:22 AM »

found him! these are cavemans settings. second version:


         "BTC_TRADING_LIMIT": 0.01,
         "PERIOD": 15,
         "GAIN": 0.6,
         "HIGH_BB": 45,
         "LOW_BB": 25,
         "EMA1": 2,
         "EMA2": 4,
         "PANIC_SELL": false,
         "DOUBLE_UP": true,
         "STOP_LIMIT": 60,
         "BUY_ENABLED": true,
         "MIN_VOLUME_TO_BUY": 0.0003,
         "MIN_VOLUME_TO_SELL": 0.0003

He made one change to that latest config: changed Low BB to 30. This is the good mans post:https://gunthy.org/index.php/topic,1131.0.html

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Beginners & Help / Re: Explain config values please

« on: September 07, 2017, 07:36:55 AM »

Hi, i cant find the info, so please help me to understand config values.

      "bb": {
         "BTC_TRADING_LIMIT": 0.7,  \\ this is max btc amount for order? or general amount to trade? if i have 2 btc, bot will use only 0.7? can i use here bigger amount, 1 or 5 for example?
         "PERIOD": 15, \\no need explanation
         "GAIN": 0.7, \\ dont know what is it? any detail explantion? what is mean this digit, this is some count from buy price or count in %
         "HIGH_BB": 50, \\ percens from both ema to  sell?
         "LOW_BB": 40, \\ percens from both ema to buy ?
         "EMA1": 2, \\ time in hours to calculate ema price?
         "EMA2": 4, \\ same
         "PANIC_SELL": false, \\ how to use this option? if true - bot sell my coins?
         "DOUBLE_UP": true, \\ what this option do?
         "STOP_LIMIT": 17, \\ as i understand this is stop loose option? if price falls for 17% from boying price - then sell all coins, or what?
         "BUY_ENABLED": tr"DOUBLE_UP": true, \\ what this option do? ue, \\ not need to be explained
         "MIN_VOLUME_TO_BUY": 0.3, \\ understand, but not completly.  if i will trade with ltc, and want sell 2-5 ltc in one time, can i set here 3 or 5 ?
         "MIN_VOLUME_TO_SELL": 0.3 \\ same

From what I know and Gunthar's release explanations:
- "BTC_TRADING_LIMIT": 0.7,  // this is max BTC per one trade. set at will.
- "GAIN" // in %. I think this is used when BB is not calculated yet, but I'm not sure yet when GAIN interferes with HIGH BB - (further explanation needed)
-"EMA1": 200, //We use the latest 200 prices of the 300 collected as EMA1 (Each one every 25seconds)
-"EMA2": 50, //We use the latest 50 prices of the 300 collected as EMA2 (Each one every 25 seconds)
-"PANIC_SELL": false, //set this to true to sell all your altcoin at market price (set BUY_ENABLED: false)
-"STOP_LIMIT": 17, //In this case it will sell all your altcoins if the price reaches -17% from bought price
-"DOUBLE_UP": true, // averageing tool, to use on downward trend of pair (needs more capital in case multiple pairs have this enabled and suddenly go down)
-"MIN_VOLUME_TO_BUY": 0.3, // dust removal tool, set higher than dust value in BTC
-"MIN_VOLUME_TO_SELL": 0.3 // same

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Technical Support & Development / Re: 4.0.5 definitive settings?

« on: September 06, 2017, 12:26:08 PM »

I don't know if you have seen this, another forum member posted his settings and also claims to have had good success. I have saved this "for science".
(sorry "member" I don't remember your nick to credit you, but please chime in if you happen to read this)

"BTC_TRADING_LIMIT": 0.01,
         "PERIOD": 15,
         "GAIN": 0.6,
         "HIGH_BB": 40,
         "LOW_BB": 30,
         "EMA1": 4,
         "EMA2": 2,
         "PANIC_SELL": false,
         "DOUBLE_UP": true,
         "STOP_LIMIT": 60,
         "BUY_ENABLED": true,
         "MIN_VOLUME_TO_BUY": 0.0005,
         "MIN_VOLUME_TO_SELL": 0.0005

ATT: Doubling up is enabled here.

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Technical Support & Development / Re: 4.0.5 definitive settings?

« on: September 06, 2017, 10:34:43 AM »

Copied from v4.0.2 Instructions:

Given the following array we collect from "Tickers":
•"period_storage_ticker": 300, //we collect an array of 300 prices
•"interval_ticker_update": 25000, //we collect one price every 25000 ms (25 seconds)
 These are the used variables in the Trend Watcher formula:
•"LASTPOINTS": 1, //How many elements should be taken from the end of the array to calculate the last point.
•"AVGPOINTS": 10, //How many elements should be taken to calculate an average.
•"AVGMINIMUM": 0.00000001, //Ignore (i.e. return null) if the average is below a minimum
 -"EMA1": 200, //We use the latest 200 prices of the 300 collected as EMA1 (Each one every 25seconds - see above)
 -"EMA2": 50, //We use the latest 50 prices of the 300 collected as EMA2 (Each one every 25 seconds - see above)
•"PERIOD": 15, //We use 15 minutes candlesticks in the EMA formula

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Technical Support & Development / Re: 4.0.5 definitive settings?

« on: September 06, 2017, 09:09:15 AM »

It played well on pairs with strong 24h volumes (like ETH, LTC, XMR vs. BTC). Less so on coins like REP and GNO with low-ish 24 h volumes. OTOH, it might have been just luck.

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General Discussion / Re: Yield in version 3.3.2 vs newest 4.x

« on: September 06, 2017, 08:44:17 AM »

I could add an observation though, having run both versions. It might be just me, but I have the feeling 4.0.5. is much quicker.