Post
Topic
Board Trading Discussion
Re: Gekko - a javascript trading bot for nodejs
by
Scorpius
on 03/01/2014, 01:22:34 UTC
This is definitely a great bot but it's kinda too agressive.  The "agressiveness" should be an option.  

What I mean is, this bot will always advice to sell even if it bought for a higher price before.  Even though in my testing is better to let the bot lose money, I think some of us prefer to take that decision manually.  So I modified it a little:

1.- Never start with a SELL.  Always start with a BUY.

2.- Never sell for a price lower than the last buy operation.  Hold until year 2140 (when the last bitcoin will be mined) if it's necessary.

Right now I'm trying to configure the thresholds to make the bot work well with 5 minute candles since one hour is way too much:  Many things happen in one hour in the bitcoin world.

Anyway, this is great work though.  Congrats.