Re: Gekko - a javascript trading bot for nodejs

Quote from: patriotek on December 24, 2013, 01:34:12 AM

I'm not sure what caused Gekko to crash. If I had to take a guess just now, I'd say it was likely a flakey moment in my InterWebs connection (quite frequent, unfortunately). What I CAN say is that:

1. Gekko darn well should be able to stand up to a loss of Internet, and recover from it when returned
2. Gekko should re-read logs from last run to determine if the Buy order it's creating is going to lose us money
and
3. When the price is low, it's time to BUY, NOT SELL...

1. Gekko is an open source project: it might contain bugs that will crash it. That said, it is able to recover after connection interrupts.
2 I am working on a new version that does store history, I am working on this on my own in my spare time and I need people to help me test it, read more here.
3. You are so right, I am now going to change Gekko so that it will never sell when the price is low again and never buy when the price is high again...

If you download Gekko (open source software), turn it on at defaults settings, load real money on the account and expect to pull money out of the air I can't really help you at all.

Gekko is a (free and open source) trading bot that watches trends according to how you configure it yourself. If you feel the default trendwatcher is flawed:

1. Don't use it for real money.
2. Complain about it to the guy who popularized it.
3. Come up with better settings that will lead to profit (using Gekko's backtester & paper traders or external tools).
4. Configure Gekko to use your better settings.

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I have some awesome news guys, but I do need your help!

I am now working on a big rewrite that will store the trade history persistently on disk, this means that it will store all data and doesn't rely on API's to always be able to fetch newest stuff anymore. This means:

- Able to watch CEX.io & Bitstamp again
- Able to watch BTC-e (including all altcoin markets)
- Ability to add basically all other exchanges without requiring them to handover older historical data.

It isn't done yet and at this moment it will only save historical trades (so no advice / mail / trading yet) but I need people who want to help me test to get this solid. More info here!