Quote from: marcovaldo on March 17, 2014, 10:05:01 PM

Quote from: rubidas on March 17, 2014, 09:43:10 PM

I've been using this bot for one month. I bought it as goxbot and after mtgox went down he sent me xbot for bitstamp.

My own config is almost same than the default but ratio trend indicator is in more important role. Though it seems it's best to react to big movements like very long emas crossing - if we are only using these technical indocators.
Therefore the bot will be quite passive with good configuration... but it stays up all day and night. I made some profit with that drop from 670 to 620 (was sleeping) but since that it's been holding mostly.

Still waiting for bigger movement. It performed well in backtests.

All bots perform well in backtests, because it does not have any delay or bugs.
Anyway, it is useless to buy a bot.

If it is a good bot, noone will never sell it.
And if it is a bad bot, it is not a good idea to buy it.

Hey, thanks for pointing out your doubts Wink

The backtest works in same way than real-time trading but the bot is set into a simulation where all data it "sees" is history data and it goes trough it but I guess you talk about network bugs? The bot is quite well tested and I run it 24/7 with two different settings. One bot is only for making charts though (trading disabled): http://www.btcharts.tk/ If I find any bugs, I fix them immediately because I need the fix myself too and then I release an update. You can check updates with "checkupdates" command.

You said all bots perform well in backtests. Could you tell me atleast one which has made more profit than by holding bitcoins if we talk about 2013 for example? Chart like this is very usefull though I don't know if you can generate CSV file with other bots for doing charts with excel: http://www.btcharts.tk/xbot/chart7.png It shows your current account balance converted to usd compared to bitcoin price during the time period of the backtest.

Code:

USD_balance + BTC_balance * Last_price * (1 - fee)

Delay is never higher than API lag which is usually 1-3 seconds at BitStamp if your own connection isn't bad. The bot does it's calculations in 100-200 milliseconds with slow CPU and 1-10 ms with fast CPU. You can set "show_calculation_times" to "true" in config if you want to see calculation times.

Why wouldn't I sell a good bot? That makes no sense. I don't lose anything if others are using it too. All the money I've got from selling this bot has gone to my exchange wallet for bot-trading.

I dont get people with such a negative attitude., you have bad experiences about bot? Why not try the real-time test Roll Eyes