Is there a minimum account balance or trade amount for this bot?
I have put .5 BTC to test it out in Bitstamp and it always uses the whole amount for buying/selling. It doesnt use only part of it for every opportunity. Is this normal?
Yes, that's normal. That's the way askmike designed it.
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Well so far It`s not really doing a good job. It has been working for about 2-3 days and .5 BTC has become .4 BTC now
Yeah I know... None of the methods in askmike's version check to make sure trades happen at a better price than the average price over the past periods --- That's why I wrote a trading method which actually tracks to make sure the trades happen at a good price:
The "stats window" functionality of the zero method is explicitly to make sure the price isn't worse than the average trading price over the past periods (
candles)