Quote from: whydifficult on August 03, 2013, 02:35:17 AM

Quote from: genydeny on August 02, 2013, 02:47:29 PM

Hi, thank you for your wonderful project!

I have a small question. How often should Gekko to send email ?
I have received only one letter after the start.

Gekko sends an email when a change in the market is detected. With the default setup it uses EMA to detect such a change on an hourly basis. When there is a lot of volatility Gekko will probably report a couple of times a day (max) but more realistically you should expect it once a day.

If something is wrong Gekko currently only logs it (when you enable debug = true, as you did), if you are using forever use `forever list` to find the logfile, you can read it by typing `tail [name of logfile]` (or use `cat` if you want to read the whole thing).

Quote from: juve4v on August 02, 2013, 04:36:47 PM

I'm trying to start it and here's what I get: "Failed to load historical trades from Bitstamp". Any suggestions?

I am currently working on a solution for this as this is a big problem, what you can try for now: lessen the `candles` in the settings, lessen the `interval` in the settings. Note that setting `candles` to a lower number will decrease the trend detection performance in the start (until it build up the history it can't fetch right now). If you are only using paper trading this means it's better to ignore the first couple of days. If you lessen the `interval` Gekko will look at smaller timeframes (so it will detect trends on a smaller timescale so to say).

This problem is not present at Mt. Gox right now btw.

I tried to lower values but this is what I got now:' 'Calculating EMA on historical data...'' and just reports that without actually going to the next step.Could you suggest the values for candles and interval to get it started? Anything above 4 min in interval gives me first error, while setting it to 4 min just hangs...Ty for your answer !