Hi guys, I'm new to this kind of area of botting/trading. I am trying to verify manually the strats used here (i.e. BB method, using 25% values). Right now I am manually monitoring this, using Poloniex and making an excel sheet. I am not making real trades, just pretend trades, but right now I don't seem to be making any money on my books. Because a lot of the markets are trending down (bearish?) it seems my 'fake' trades are holding a lot of bags... is this normal? Right now I pretended to invest starting amount = 0.5BTC and I am down to around 0.4BTC (20% loss) because I am holding some bags (I just valuate the bags at their current prices).

What do you guys think? Does the bot handle this better than I am? Because it would seem the bot would need to wait until the price is above purchase price to sell these bags...