For me, stepgain usually sells too early on a minor dip.
Exactly what controls Xtrend, and how can I set it to avoid selling on minor dips?
Do EMA1 and EMA2 control it? Or it it a combination of indicators?
Will raising EMA1 and EMA2 allow GB to miss the minor sell dips?
Thanks
Stepgain has always been one of my favorite strategies. To make it simple: You can sets 2 points, for example 1,5 and 10. That means that the bot will never sell unless the profit % is, at least, 1,5%. Once it reachs to 1,5% profit, it will check if the trend is going up, and in that case it will let the price raise as high as possible. If the price raises by 10%, it will sell. In the case the price is above between 1,5% and 10% and the trend starts going down, it sells. The point of all this is to try to sell at the higher price possible.
Regarding bot's reactivity. If you want to increase it when running stepgain:
1- Lower period.
2- Lower SMAperiod
If you feel it reachs too fast, just use a higher period, raise SMAPeriod, and raise delay.
On the other hand, since v11, there is a parameter called XTREND_ENABLED. If you enable it, Stepgain will work as it "always" worked since Gunbot v3. If you disable it, Stepgain will use the "old" logic, I mean, the logic the bot used on v2.04. I was curious about trying this because a lot of people kept using v2.0.4 for looong time because they said it was much better and profitable than the "new" loginc, and when I started using Gunbot, the latest version was v3, so I had never tried it. Now I did and I have to say I really like it and I think it's definitely worth to give it a try.