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Board Trading Discussion
Re: Gekko - a javascript trading bot and backtesting platform
by
kuzetsa
on 08/07/2014, 01:27:10 UTC
Hi,

I have Gekko running on my linux box. Unfortunately, it is only giving console text output.

I guess I have missed something for enabling its true puwer.

Do I have to coulpe it with a web server or something ??

thanks for your info.



It's NOT a TA tool made for manual, human-powered trading where you look at charts and whatnot...

If you really wanted to you could convert the console output into graphs, or even enable the builtin web module
(it has a web server built-in, but I've never tested it and it's not very well documented.)

I'd recommend using something like ninjatrader if you need a graphical interface with charts.



It was never made for that, and here's a quote from the TL;DR "pretty long"
very first (original) post from page 1 of this thread:

((...snip...))

So Gekko is not

  • A fully automated trading bot that you turn on and will generate profit withouth you having to do anything.
  • A trading platform for human day traders with a GUI and charts.
  • A High frequency trading bot designed to operate on < minute resolution.
  • An exchange.