@ whydifficult

Forgive me please, if you will, for the tone of my last... Had a rough day (one of many), and this issue was just the bitter icing on a dirt cake.  Ya' know what they say about excuses and back-sides...lol

I do understand that Gekko is a WIP, and may possibly crash.  I also understand that default settings may not be the best for a given set of circumstances.

I guess what I do not yet understand is why, in 2 separate situations on 2 different exchanges (and I believe on different systems), it consistently lost money rather than making any gains whatsoever, and crashed:

1.  CEX.io in sim-mode with settings changed according to recommendations made here in this thread

2.  BTC-e in trading mode with defaults, but with no indication that I've yet seen that the defaults are not appropriate for it.

Might I ask the following, as it sounds like you're re-writing much of it already:

How difficult might it be to set it up such that depending upon which exchange / currency pair you set it to run with, it sets safe or at least lower risk defaults accordingly?  As well, it might be valuable to set up the startup scripts so that if the service fails, it can be stopped and restarted.  I haven't had any time (nor do I have much supporting knowledge) to check into how this might be done, but it was an idea that I had...

If I weren't so behind on modern software development (last I programmed was Basic on C-64 and crApple 2c's...hehe), I'd dig in and help.  For that matter, I'm still hoping to, to some minimal extent.  If I weren't so dead broke, I'd donate now.  I will donate once Gekko's helping me dig outta' this pit I'm in!!

Again, my apologies for previous attitude, and appreciation for your work on this!



edit:  Shoulda' gone to bed, but...  This got my attention in the config's:
  sellTreshold: -0.25,
  buyTreshold: 0.25

Forgive my financial ignorance (I'm quickly learning), but might these be reversed?  In my mind, you'd want to sell at EMA+N.nn rather than -N.nn, and buy at -N.nn, but I can't be sure that I'm interpreting things correctly, or even in the same ball-park...