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Technical Support & Development / Re: Trailing stop loss feature request

« on: June 16, 2017, 04:25:31 AM »

FUNCTIONALITY LIKE THIS WOULD BE A GAME CHANGER.  The next and much smarter iteration of stopgain, which currently seems to buy toward the top of dumps and sell toward the bottom of pumps, presumably at the first sign of price reversal past level 1 of buy/sell (or %GAIN?).  I've had this happen twice in the last five days, buying at the high end of dumps and then being left with deep bags because stepgain could not follow the dump down.

For selling I would have TRAILING_PERCENT_SELL (or whatever) work in conjunction with the current %GAIN function that guarantees minimum sell above BUY price.  So assuming (above) we bought at 100 with a %GAIN of 5% and a TRAILING_PERCENT_SELL set to 3%, using sell strategy TRAILINGSELL.  When prices rises past 105, we don't immediately sell, but wait to sell until price either a) retreats 3% from most recent high price, or b) retreats down to %GAIN price.  Assuming we stay above the %GAIN sell price, the price momentarily retreating 1-2% below highest current price would not trigger the sale, allowing Gunbot to chase the price up with however much variation along the way the user is comfortable with.

For buying I would think you ALWAYS want the option to chase the price as low as possible, no matter what BUY strategy you use, so maybe the only option you'd need for buying is the TRAILING_PERCENT_BUY which would be used in conjunction with the buy price Gunbot already determines based on the currently selected BUY strategy/range entered.  If the user (for some reason) doesn't want to chase a price down and allow for any flux in the price along the way, they can just set the TRAILING_PERCENT_BUY = 0 and buys will work exactly the same they do now.

Again, this would be a HUGE game changer.

- Chris OCC

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General Discussion / Bittrex Bollinger Band and EMA Settings?

« on: June 14, 2017, 03:21:17 PM »

Sorry about huge pictures, that's what I get doing screen captures on a 4K monitor...

Bollinger Bands:

In Bittrex, the following settings are available when you add Bollinger Bands to a chart:



What should those settings be on Bittrex to approximate Gunbot BB calculations?


Moving Average:

For EMA, Gunbot gives you three parameters that affect its EMA calculations (EMA1, EMA2, Candlestick).  In Polo, to approximate  Gunbot's default value EMA calculation on a Polo chart, you use the following settings:



However on Bittrex, you have TWO Moving Average options:



And:



Which Moving Average option do I use, and what settings for that option, to approximate default Gunbot EMA calculations?

Without being able to visually analyze these values on Bittrex, it makes using Gunbot strategies with Bittrex more like guesswork than analysis.

Thanks in advance!

-Chris OCC

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Beginners & Help / Re: Gunbot Monitor - Oversee all GUNBOTs in one screen

« on: June 14, 2017, 04:26:59 AM »

gmon update
Version 0.0.31

Changelog

- Displays market in front of pair name.
- Displays strategy per pair.
- 422's are hidden behind the --show-all-errors flag.
- Hide inactive trade pairs with the --hide-inactive option.
- Set amount of displayed digits with the --digits (-d) option.
- Improved # Buys and # Sells alignment.
- Renamed last colum to "Errors"

You sir, are a genius, and this summary view of Gunbot activity and progress is indispensable.  I have it running on my Windows VPS and this is the most watched window I have in ANYTHING I do, work or personal.

A couple of very minor suggestions for future consideration:

- Have "Available Bitcoins" display either total for all exchanges being shown, or per exchange.  I am running Polo and Bittrex and the total shown is only for Polo (I think, they're about the same balance).

- Maybe next to "Available Bitcoins" show either a percent utilized or percent available compared to Total in BTC currently in other coins listed.  I'm constantly doing that quick mental math to see if I need to adjust my "Max Balance to Trade" numbers up or down to fully utilize available BTC.  As a bonus, showing average BTC utilization over last 24 hours (or since monitor was started, whichever is easier).

- When there is more than one exchange being used, have a subtotal per exchange so you can see how one is doing compared to the other.  A simple "P TOTAL" line under the Polo grouping and "B TOTAL" line under the Bittrex grouping, etc, with grand totals still at bottom.

- Consider adding Strategy to the small view.  It is very narrow and really the only missing piece of info I find myself constantly going back to Gunbot to look up (when you're watching 20-30 pairs or more).

Thanks for your awesome contribution and an invaluable tool!

- Chris OCC

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Technical Support & Development / Re: Bugs/Issues tracker v3.3.2

« on: June 13, 2017, 03:28:16 AM »

Take a look at the price the bot bought at and at the price the bot is trying to sell.
Then look at the stepgain settings, which start from 25% at lvl1

Do I misunderstand something about the stepgain strategy or is the bot just ignoring that settings and using gain strategy instead?

That would explain no matter what settings I have tried in last five days I can not get a stepgain buy/sell past level 1 no matter how far a pump (or dump) goes.  With stepgain I keep buying at the top 2% of a 20% dump and selling at the first 3% of a 15% pump regardless of settings (stepgain, max latest prices for trend, etc...), I've been assuming Gunbot just pulls the trigger as soon as it sees first reversal in trend, without ability to ride out momentary and normal price flux on the way up/down, and trying to figure out a way to make it more tolerant of those momentary gyrations on a pump/dump journey...

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General Discussion / Re: Keeping track of profit/losses over time

« on: June 08, 2017, 06:31:05 AM »

Found a good start here: https://gunthy.org/index.php?topic=61.msg169#msg169

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General Discussion / Re: 300% in 90 days? The Criptonauta auto challenge

« on: June 08, 2017, 05:31:52 AM »

Hey @criptonauta, thanks for all of the time you put into sharing this challenge and knowledge.  I just started using Gunbot (but not new to altcoin trading) and have a simple question.  While I have no doubt that your experiment and results validate using Gunbot and/or its strategies profitably over time, would you still say the Gunbot method of 300% in 90 days is better than just holding bags of several coins and reaping the natural increase in value of that same 90 days?

If you look here:  https://www.worldcoinindex.com/trending/overview

You can see under the %90d column that EVERY coin's value has increased dramatically over the last 90 days, an average of probably 1500% (looking at top 20 coins by volume at a glance).  If you took what you started with at the beginning of your 90 days, spread it evenly across the top six coins by volume, and put it under a mattress for 90 days, your return would have been over 1600%.

Hindsight is 20/20 of course, and the last 90 days have been extraordinary, but unless you think altcoin is going to tank soon, it seems like you'd have to pull 18% return a DAY with Gunbot to match the last 90 days of just holding coins?

Thoughts?

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General Discussion / Keeping track of profit/losses over time

« on: June 08, 2017, 05:18:14 AM »

On Linux you can apparently use gmon with the -P option to see a summary of profit per coin.  I'm running the Windows app of Gunbot on a dedicated VPS. 

1) Is there a relatively simple way to see profit/loss per pair like gmon -P on Linux?  I know there's a "Total Profit BTC:" line on the monitor per pair, but it's reset to 0 as soon as you restart the pair.

2) I've seen reference to a spreadsheet that people are dumping Polo exports into to see this.  Where is that or how do I buy it?

Thanks in advance.

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General Discussion / Ride the rocket?

« on: June 06, 2017, 09:39:55 PM »

Just purchased GB and getting it set up on dedicated Windows VPS (because Linux hurts my eyes ) and SUPER excited about getting started.  Just PM'd Gunthar a few questions about the 3.3 version of the Windows app, but here's a general question:

Before GB, on Poloniex I've been manually using a very simple GAIN method, just buying 10-15% below EMA and selling 10-15% above purchase price, OR holding on a steep rise until a 10% pullback.  Is there a way in GB to basically say "only sell after X% pullback on a Y% increase over purchase price"?  Manually, I would hold on a crazy 50% increase in value over a day or two, and ride out the 3-8% pullback gyrations on the way up, but when it pulls back 10%, as long as my profit is still at least 10% after that pullback, I'd sell.  If no way to do that in GB today, maybe a feature request?

That may go against the principles of GB's microtrades, but if you have any ideas (or see a fatal trading flaw) let me know.  It's worked quite well manually in the last month.  Thanks.