Running Gekko as a taker

[askmike]

So... question for Mike I s'pose... in theory was that all I needed and my experiment ended as it should? Or did I miss something and maybe running as a taker could produce better results than I saw?

Gekko is using limit orders now which is considered conservative. If the is no major price move happening this means you pay less for 3 reasons:

- maker fees instead of taker fees (depends on the exchange)
- crossing the spread
- slipping into the orderbook

I have given some examples about the them here: https://github.com/askmike/gekko/issues/...-408744682

These last two are relative and depend 100% on the market you are trading on. If you are a tiny market (like most altcoin markets on Kraken, you might end up losing 1% of you balance every time you trade). That's the reason why I'm slow in implementing it in Gekko. Doing market orders is easy, but making sure we don't do it when there is no liquidity is very harder. With the current defaults it's "harder" to lose money quickly due to lack of liquidity.