upgraded and now trades don't execute

[Camineet]

hi guys need some basic help please. thanks very much.

i upgraded from gunbot 3.33 to 5.0 and also purchased gunthygui yesterday.

when previously running 3.33 gui version, trades worked fine on bittrex and i made a little bit of profit after trying it for a few days.

after upgrading to gunbot 5 and purchasing the gunthygui .99, everything seems to run fine but no trades are executed.

in the 1st screenshot, you can see it seems the current prices should cause the bot to buy, but it doesn't.

you can see the ticker price is green and below the buy price, but it seems the bot just keeps scanning forever and doesn't make a purchase.

in the 2nd screenshot you can see my btc-omg pair shows this gray table in the log that indicates the reason no purchase has occured - the price is too high!!!

but most of my other pairs don't display this messaging. they just continue repeating the 'scanning bittrex for trading opportunities' as seen in the 1st pic.

as i have previously had my bittrex api key activated by gunthar, i didn't think it necessary to have my api key activated again by gunthar for gunbot v5. could that be the reason gunbot isn't executing any trades?

any help would be much appreciated

[paramecie]

BB is linked to GAIN in that it won't buy if the price is above SMA - BUY_LEVEL%
So if the SMA is low, it'll try to buy lower.
Don't decrease the BUY_LEVEL too low: I'd say 5 down to 3 maximum maybe, it's a safety measure.
HTH?

[Camineet]

ok thanks a lot for the reply. i'm really bummed out that i can't get my bot to work after upgrading because i'm so interested in becoming skilled at using it and was able to earn about 1.5% with 3.33 a few days ago when i tried it for the fist time after getting it set up.

i have just now asked the gunthygui developer on telegram which setting corresponds to Buy Level in gunthygui. i can't find it in the attached pics of my gunthygui settings.

as far as gain, it's in the gunthygui settings. and i've always had it set at 3.

[Camineet]

HTH?

oh, and sorry, i don't know what HTH means can i trouble you to explain?

[paramecie]

HTH = Hoping That Helps

Apart this, setting to 3 is fine, but anyway that depends how is going the market(s).
My 3.3.2 on a dozen+ of pairs couldn't buy for 12 hours or so...
You can lower the BUY_LEVEL, but then you're risking to buy just before it goes down.
You've to try (on ONE pair) the different settings and watch it work?

[Camineet]

oh yes helpful thank you again

i don't mind setting the bot on a pair to be very aggressive and force a buy even if i get a bag because all my pairs are for coins that i already hold in large quantity and like a lot.

but, the problem is that i can't even find BUY_LEVEL as seen in the previous settings screenshots. hopefully someone here or the developer on telegram replys and can tell how to adjust BUY_LEVEL. then i could set a pair to be aggressive and force a buy for troubleshooting purposes as you suggested

[paramecie]

>but, the problem is that i can't even find BUY_LEVEL as seen in the previous settings screenshots.

It's in the GAIN strategy (but it's implied in the BB), yes, very obvious ;-)
Don't forget to correctly set the GAIN also, same for BB and GAIN.

      "gain": {
         "BTC_TRADING_LIMIT": 0.005,
         "PERIOD": 15,
         "BUY_LEVEL": 5,
         "GAIN": 1,

HTH

[Camineet]

great thanks for ongoing help. i realized after your last message that the BUY_LEVEL setting is in the gain strategy settings in gunthygui.

i've set up bb and gain strategies with the settings you gave me as seen in the pics below.

i've also taken some action to isolate and simplify my setup to for best possible trouble shooting. i've sold all my altcoins into btc on bittrex and have also deleted all trading pairs in gunbot except for btc-xem.

if i understand correctly, setting BUY_LEVEL to 5 will cause gunbot to buy at 5% above bb low and should result in a somewhat quick purchase since it's easy for a fluctuation in price level to drop by such a small amount. we are thereby pushing the gunbot to buy ASAP just to make sure it's working. is that right?

[paramecie]

>if i understand correctly, setting BUY_LEVEL to 5 will cause gunbot to buy at 5% above bb low

No (AFAIK).

BB will stand it'll buy between 0 and LowBB+%
Example, would buy from 0 to LowBB+25%

But it'll NOT buy if the price is not BELOW SMA - BUYLEVEL%
Example, won't buy above SMA-5%

This to avoid buying when the SMA show the price is crashing.


A bit the same for selling: it would sell if the price is in HighBB, but it will NOT sell if the selling price isn't above buying price + GAIN%
Example, won't sell below buying price + 1%