Why?

Got the little guy in the mailbox today. Plugged in and running with (almost) no trouble. kosmokramer ships fast.

That's exactly what was meant. Thanks for answering up quickly.

Who is "d500xl9446" ?

https://www.bitmit.net/en/img/trade_uploads/2013/06/03/asicminer-block-erupters-_64e6f.jpg

It's in PACER now.

http://ia601700.us.archive.org/8/items/gov.uscourts.wawd.192566/gov.uscourts.wawd.192566.docket.html

http://ia601700.us.archive.org/8/items/gov.uscourts.wawd.192566/gov.uscourts.wawd.192566.1.1.pdf

Just a comment for those newly experimenting with _balancer. This is not a bug or anything but be careful not to set DISTANCE too small. What will happen on a rally is that you will sell several times before the bot gets a chance to buy, then after the inevitable peak the bot will buy the cumulative of the next buy and the two or three missed buys, but at a price nearer to the peak of the rally than you'd like.

Try this: After it is up and running, hit "Ctrl-z" and then type "bg" then press Enter.

Of course it is a possible hoax, and the news is 10 hours old, they may have changed their plans. Or the message itself may be intended to cause panic, though I doubt its potential to affect much. I saw it on HN, and thought someone might like to know. Do what you want with the news.

Pastebin copypasta'd in here without comment, thanks go to HN and Reddit. Could merely be a hoax, be careful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5588698
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1cu4ck/ridiculous_ddos_operation_set_up_for_monday/

http://pastebin.com/QAPxhEbP

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===OPERATION SHOCK AND AWE
===Date: Monday 2013-04-22
===Start time of event: 15:30 UTC
===Goal: Bring bitcoin price < $30 US dollars

Members, here it is, today's timeline of events.

15:30-15:45 UTC - Spread bogus AP press releases to 50+ national US and British media outlets and 100+ local outlets indicating exchange site Mt. Gox under investigation by Japnese government for securities fraud, with seizure and asset freeze soon
15:45-16:00 UTC - After initial publication of bogus AP press releases, spam story on reddit and upvote with sock accounts, spread panic in comments using sock accounts
16:00 UTC - Several sellers lined up for a coordinated dump of 250,000+ BTC which will crash the price to under 100 to correlate in time with publication of bogus AP reports
16:10 UTC - Massive coordinated http packet flood (distributed F5) from botnet of 1,000,000+ compromised machines on the following sites:
- https://www.mtgox.com
- https://btc-e.com
- https://www.coinbase.com
- https://www.bitpay.com
- https://www.bitinstant.com
- https://www.bitcoitalk.org
- http://s2.bitcoinity.org
- http://bitcoinium.com/
- http://bitcoincharts.com/

16:30 - 17:00 UTC - During the ddos, buy only from Bitstamp which will not be included in the ddos but was included in the coordinated dump.
17:00 UTC - Stop ddos, buy as much cheap bitcoin from MTGOX as possible as quickly as you can
17:00 or later - Bogus AP reports will be corrected / debunked as hoax, price will rebound
Potential profit 200-300%

You all know your stations, distribute this paste to the rest of the group as it won't last long on the hidden wiki. Don't let this get out to the public, we need the price to remain high at 120 leading up to the event for maximum effect.

~~ PREPARE FOR SHOCK AND AWE ~~

Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he thought seppeku [sic] means masturbating.

Wow! Looks like they made it with 11 months to spare.

Okay, here are a couple questions,
Q1. Are you interested in bug reports at your github?
Q2. Do you mind contributions from others?
Q2. a. Even from individuals who are obviously less capable programmers than yourself? It might require some patience on your part, especially in the beginning.
Q3. I might want to add some features that some may think is really goofy (like play sounds when trades execute),

let's say I make some changes to stragegy.py, and I want to test them. We can consider several testing strategies

• Test on historical data from mtgox.
  
  • interesting since goxtool grabs this data when it connects, and because this data is real, and relevant to current mkt conditions
  • bad because it's not a controlled test, and therefore difficult to compare strategies
  • dangerous since we're connected to a live account. Maybe we should make for ourselves different API access for testing vs trading

• Test on fake data we make ourselves. This could be:
  
  • Old data we've saved
  • Data collected from other exchanges
  • Fake sample data sets.

There is also various levels of diligence to consider,

• simply iterate over the data?
• iterate, and try to account for realistic mkt timings, liquidity, etc.

Do you think it would be easier to write a new program for testing that imports some strategy.py, or add testing functionality to goxtool?
Is that a feature that you might be personally interested in, or would consider adding to the codebase?

I am interested in a small number of chips, like a dozen, has a price been settled upon?

They are made to order to be bought only in large batches. You wouldn't want them to stock 10,000 chips for many reasons.

I think not, see HavenCo.

That's a good idea.

Correct me if I am wrong but Mtgox charges a 0.6% fee per trade so it makes little difference whether you make large* or small ones. But, as you say, you do need to ensure that you make approximately >(0.6*2)% profit on trades or you will simply be slowly giving away your account to Mtgox in the form of fees.

* Large being relative here.

Luxembourg? Antigua?

I hope some people move over there so they can grow. Not a lot of trading going on though, you're right.

I installed it last weekend with git.

I run it just like this.

I tried other configurations, but I can't say anything good or bad considering the conditions. I wouldn't call it a controlled experiment in other words.

I traded manually with it this week a bit, and it worked fine. I changed the colors up a bit since I have 256 color xterm. Until today I was just entering trades manually but then I checked the thread and saw the _balancer so I did a git stash and a git pull and I have been playing with it this evening. Fun stuff, thanks to OP for posting the example. It's better (more complete) than what I was throwing together. A good starting point.

PS If anyone is interested, I found a book on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Systems-Methods-Website-Wiley/dp/1118043561

Been running it for a week, it is surprisingly robust considering the problems with mtgox, and me suspending my laptop a couple of times per day.



So, about that, got any good links or books to recommend? Googling for "portfolio rebalancing" gets me a bunch of noise about how I should own a diversity of stocks, bonds, and other garbage. Googling for "Forex rebalancing" is only a bit better.