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Technical Support & Development / Re: Constructive ideas for TA use in Gunbot

« on: September 08, 2017, 05:11:44 PM »

Does anyone know what time parameters poloniex uses for MACD? It seems EMA12-EMA26 is most common.

Looking at the charts on poloniex with 15 minute and 30 minute candlesticks, it looks like the local minima and local maxima of the MACD are more reliable BUY/SELL signals than crossovers.

Not sure if this is available in TAlib, but ideally:

IF Trend(MACD) goes from negative to positive, BUY.

(Could possibly be coded as IF 0>Trend(MACD)>x, where x is some empirically tested value. However, this would buy in some situations besides real 0 crossovers.)

IF Trend(MACD) goes from positive to negative & GAIN > y, SELL.

This would let us ride the pumps and MOST dumps very nicely

In the aggressive dump pictured below, we would probably get stuck with some bags, but that's why we have DOUBLE UP

XMR/BTC dump https://imgur.com/XPwV8OH

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Technical Support & Development / Re: Price dropped gunbot still tries to sell high

« on: September 08, 2017, 12:38:13 AM »

I'm still learning here, but I would either send the coins to another wallet, or sell them at a loss and let Gunbot pick back up on that pair.

v4.0.5 has a feature where it will buy again at the lower level, then average the price, but there are some differences between that version and version 3.x. it is probably best to stick with your current version if you are new

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General Discussion / Re: Simple BB explanation needed

« on: September 04, 2017, 12:35:19 AM »

looks like a screenshot from poloniex. they just are using "night mode" color theme

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General Discussion / Re: Taxes - again!

« on: September 03, 2017, 11:43:33 PM »

My question though is when withdrawing btc into fiat (gbp in my case) i would surely need to know the price of any bitcoin obtained as profit in order to be able to determine if there is any gain to pay tax on.

Not only that, you'd need the GBP value of BTC when you bought it and the GBP value of BTC when you traded it for an alt, to track the gain/loss.

Then you need the GBP value of BTC when you sell the alt to track the gain/loss on the trade. This is your new cost basis for the next trade!

Doing taxes this way would be a nightmare, and is a good candidate for malicious compliance. Maybe if some people manage to track all this, and file tax reports the way govts want us to, they will change their tune!