Stepgain refuses to sell

[pinsk]

Greetings! I'm fairly new to Gunbot and currently using Gunthy GUI, but ran into an issue with my bbstepgain strategy. On several occasions I've noticed it correctly bought low, but refused to sell when it rose high. One instance is in the screenshot.

Here are the settings I'm currently using.

"bbstepgain": {
         "BTC_TRADING_LIMIT": 0.005,
         "PERIOD": 5,
         "HIGH_BB": 45,
         "LOW_BB": 21,
         "STDV": 2,
         "SMAPERIOD": 150,
         "SELLLVL1": 0.94,
         "SELLLVL2": 2.14,
         "SELLLVL3": 40,
         "SELLLVL": 2,
         "LASTPOINTS": 4,
         "AVGPOINTS": 10,
         "AVGMINIMUM": 1e-8,
         "EMA1": 4,
         "EMA2": 2,
         "PANIC_SELL": false,
         "DOUBLE_UP": false,
         "STOP_LIMIT": 60,
         "BUY_ENABLED": true,
         "MIN_VOLUME_TO_BUY": 0.005,
         "MIN_VOLUME_TO_SELL": 0.018

In this particular case, the bot states it should sell at 0.00014586, but even after it surpassed 0.00014800 for an extended period of time, it wouldn't sell. Any advise would be appreciated.

[sloaleks]

there is no issue. you are expecting gains higher than 2.14% (you have set "SELLLVL": 2). The bot is trying to get you a gain between 2.14 and infinite% (so it needs to see more than about 0.000146). The price 0.000146 is when it's starting the sell cycle (at more than 2.14% gain over bought price). Now the bot is waiting to see the maximum. It has not sold at 0.000148 because price is still climbing - there's a small candle above this price.. It will sell on the next down trend it detects. The result will be a gain somewhere higher than 2.14 and lower than 40 (or even possibly more than 40%, if the price gets this high, but then you must count yourself very lucky). Now you have to wait. This is what stepgain is all about. Possible high gains, but on an uptrend you'll have a longer waiting time to sell.
If you want faster trades, set selllvl to 1. But in this case it would still be waitnig to sell I think.