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Specify start time - Shima - 03-19-2018
When running longer candle sizes (and maybe also other scenarios) it would be nice to be able to specify an exact time (and possibly date) for Gekko to go live. For example, if I run a strat on four hour candles and would like it fairly synchronized with TradeView candles so that I easier can analyze/predict the actions of Gekko, I don't want to sit around for two-three hours to press "enter" exactly when TradeView starts a new candle. I would much rather just set a start time as a switch in the console and then Gekko could run a market watcher until then so that market data is ready at the time it goes live.
Like for eample:
node gekko --config strategy.js --start 2018-02-14T04:00:00
RE: Specify start time - askmike - 03-20-2018
This has definitely been a much requested issue, will make this available in the next big update.
For now: if you are using a unix based system (Mac or Linux) you could create a tiny bash script that sleeps until the time you specify, see here: https://superuser.com/questions/222301/unix-sleep-until-the-specified-time