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General Discussion / Re: How to specify the listening port?

« on: September 22, 2017, 12:28:52 PM »

3.3.x ?
I'm not sure you can change this.
I'd suggest to use further versions, at least with 5.x you can, I didn't try the 4.x versions.
Otherwise port forwarding maybe?
HTH-

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Beginners & Help / Re: Error: Missing price to sell !!!

« on: September 22, 2017, 12:24:01 PM »

You get this message when starting a pair in 3.3.x
It's "normal", simply wait for the next delay/refresh.
I see cycle 659, so it's not the beginning, but I would consider this as "normal" - compared to the other "normal" things sometimes Gunbot does 

183

Beginners & Help / Re: BB levels and buy/sell levels

« on: September 21, 2017, 11:33:54 PM »

IF I understood well, it won't buy even being in the LowBB zone if the price isn't below EMA% - which is the parameter GAIN/BUY_LEVEL I think?

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General Discussion / Re: Rough week: How much was the market and how much was Gunbot?

« on: September 21, 2017, 11:31:02 PM »

Yes: BTC is falling.

If you're awake, when BTC falls it may be a good idea to turn GB off before it buys all the altcoins ;-)
I think Gunthar posted somewhere about the danger of pumps and dumps.

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Beginners & Help / Re: Gunbot not buying, seems to keep lowering BB as the price goes down

« on: September 21, 2017, 12:17:40 PM »

Try and understand how it works with only ONE single pair.

XMR is a descending one - BB can't buy with your settings, depending also when and what you set at the rare moments it was increasing:
https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-XMR

Better pick a stable or increasing pair.
Otherwise decrease from 3 to 2 the buy level, but that's a security, I prefer to set it to 4.
Gain should be set lower also: 2% is far too high to start.

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General Discussion / Re: GUNBOT v5: Setting up your BB strategy to match CHARTS

« on: September 21, 2017, 12:02:13 AM »

What happens if we have a lot of pairs running in the same time in Sjakil's GUI ??

If I understand well.
For now, gunbot has its own BB calculation, Sjakil's also (and different), and the marketplace also (and different of one or both).
This above trick is to make GB have the same curves than the marketplace, that's all.

It doesn't change in Sjakil's, it'll be probably different... (until his new version)

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General Discussion / Re: GUNBOT v5: Setting up your BB strategy to match CHARTS

« on: September 20, 2017, 11:33:46 PM »

Ah but it's only concerning 5.x, as SMA can't be set up in 3.x version AFAIK?
Too bad because I recently gave up 5.0.4 because of abnormal buying prices (see gtihub), which will be solved on 5.0.5

Question, do you have a way to, at the contrary, make the marketplace match gunbot BB?
Like changing the settings in Bittrex BB to match gunbot?

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Beginners & Help / Re: differing BB settings in 5.0.4

« on: September 20, 2017, 10:56:21 PM »

Hi all, anyone know how to set different bb settings for individual pairs within version 5.0.4? I'm not familiar with the code so don't want to mess up the config file, thanks.

Exemple for one pair :

   "pairs": {
      "bittrex": {
         "BTC-BCC": {
            "strategy": "bb",
            "override": {
               "HIGH_BB": 45,
               "LOW_BB": 30
            }
         }
      }
   },


This will override ("replace" ?) the normal seetings for this specific pair.

189

Beginners & Help / Re: Bollinger VS step gain on bittrex.

« on: September 20, 2017, 10:53:19 PM »

https://gunthy.org/index.php/topic,1417.0

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Technical Support & Development / Re: BOLLINGER BAND HELP

« on: September 20, 2017, 10:52:32 PM »

1° With 3.x, your bot is automatically in GAIN mode if it doesn't have enough BB data, which can take a while.

2° Gunbot BBs aren't the marketplaces BBs, please read this (and many other things) :
https://gunthy.org/index.php/topic,1417.0

3° Gain 3% is a daydream, start with the minimum (like 0.1% gain after trading fees) on ONE pair

Learn... then earn ;-)

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General Discussion / Re: GUNBOT v5: Setting up your BB strategy to match CHARTS

« on: September 20, 2017, 08:46:18 PM »

Waw! Interesting! I'll check this!

I've found that, but it requires tradingview:
https://www.tradingview.com/script/OZeGGswT-Bollinger-Bands-Explorer/

192

Beginners & Help / Re: Do you ever manually sell to cut losses and move on?

« on: September 20, 2017, 06:06:50 PM »

Same problem here with ARK 

If you need "cash" to trade, no other solution than to sell as is, mark a loss, and try to compensate on other pairs.
A trader always loose; the important it to gain (a bit) more than you loose.

If you don't need immediate cash, place manual orders on the marketplace with a tiny margin, or a decent loss (like -5% for example, if you're already far below...)

Third solution, leave your bot trying to sell them - but it'll take a long time and a load on the API...

Good luck!

193

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

« on: September 20, 2017, 04:16:03 PM »

>Don't manual trade on a pair GB is watching. Use a different account.

No, that's really not a problem with 5.0.4, I did tens of trades, no worries.


>AFAIK Gunbot will use "gain" strategy until it has enough price data to calculate BB's. This looks like why it bought 0.001

I think that was 3.x or 4.x
In 5.x it doesn't seem to work like this.


But the major problem is here, will be fixed in 5.0.5:
https://github.com/GuntharDeNiro/BTCT/issues/131


And of course, in very first, the good choice of pairs, investment, strategies, settings...


HTH?

194

General Discussion / Re: Gunbot bought 3 lots of the same alt coin

« on: September 19, 2017, 05:35:18 PM »

Did you set "double_up" to false ?
See:
https://gunthy.org/index.php/topic,1390.msg6845.html#msg6845

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Technical Support & Development / Re: Buying at peaks on 4.0.5

« on: September 19, 2017, 05:29:23 PM »

FIRST set "double_up" to false, it's a catastrophic option, it'll rebuy when the price is going down...
Only for real pros ;-)

Then, for the 4.0.5 I don't know. Maybe try the last 5.0.4 version? Or the official 3.3.2?

196

Beginners & Help / Re: Bearish market and bags

« on: September 19, 2017, 05:23:08 PM »

>I was wondering if it is smart to turn off the bot in a bearish market?

Personnaly I state "buy_enabled"=false, it's better, so you've a chance to sell if a Bull appears ;-)

>What will happen with your bags when you restart the bot in better market conditions?

It should restart fine, I guess.
Depending the version maybe.
I use 5.0.4

HTH -

197

Beginners & Help / Re: GUNBOT...the way i run it!

« on: September 19, 2017, 05:19:31 PM »

But how is comparing the last price to the target price to buy, which is an actual value and not a range.
or is a mix of BB and other criteria?

Not sure to understand, and not sure how it works, sorry.

I'd say :

* if the last ASK price is equal or below your LowBB+x%, it should take the last ASK as the target price (and logically, it buys)

* if not, then if the GAIN "BUY_LEVEL" (x% under the SMA or EMA1/2 I'm not sure), is equal or below your LowBB+x%, it should take the BUY_LEVEL% as the target price

* if not, then LowBB+x% should be the target price

Something like this maybe... please search in forum, there are explanations somewhere I guess? Or wait for confirmation, I'm a rookie here ;-)

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Beginners & Help / Re: GUNBOT...the way i run it!

« on: September 19, 2017, 04:45:33 PM »

From what I have read the price to buy should be x% above the lower bb line, the buy price should be higher than the low bb value.

Hi Chile!

No, the buying price is from ZERO, UP TO (or, at a maximum of) LowBB + x%

So the buying price is in between, for example, 0 and LowBB+30%

The idea is that you set the maximum price to buy. The lower the better (you can even set -30% if you wish), but the lower the rarer it'll be able to buy...

Hoping it helps?

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Beginners & Help / Re: Bot saying price too high

« on: September 18, 2017, 11:02:53 PM »

>New setup v3.3 just started with OMG for today. The bot checks and returns "price too high" all day, hasn't placed one trade.

OMG climbed almost all day long, then it can't buy using BB because prices may have been in the BB upper band.

Check your GAIN setup: while not having enough rates for BB (recently ran), it works in GAIN.
Use a conservative buy=5 and sell=1 for example (same for BB and GAIN).


>I have set BB low to 25%. Does this mean the price is not reaching the 25% range or I've been gone but looking back at BB on the chart, it should have traded it.

Charts are different, gunbot creates its own, it's difficult to say if it should have bought or not.

>Will run more coins, just wanted to get feet wet with a few small trades.

Don't add more pairs for now.
Try with a cool flat or ascending pair, test settings, learn. Then later on you may earn ;-)

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Technical Support & Development / Re: Gunbot 5.0.4 BB

« on: September 18, 2017, 11:31:08 AM »

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