Gekko Forum - Automated Trading

Can you automate day trading?

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:55:17 +0000

Many people are lured to the markets by promises of easy money via day trading robots or expert advisors (EAs). An EA, or trading robot, is an automated trading program that runs on your computer and trades for you in your account. ... There is money to be made with trading robots and learning to automate strategies.

Binance not trading full balance

Sun, 07 Jun 2020 08:31:36 +0000

Hi Guys

i have been having moderate success with the bot,but am finding a strange issue, i am trading in USDT/BTC, but when the bot creates a sticky buy and fills it, so buys btc with usdt, there is always a balance left behind in the usdt account, it never seems to do a 100% buy.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance

I've just started using gekko, please help

Sun, 03 May 2020 13:27:08 +0000

hello, I just started using gekko

I need some help.

I want to use the gekko rsi layers, but I never want him to sell it with a lost sale. How can I do that?

Setting up a Selling Threshold

Mon, 20 May 2019 22:35:14 +0000

I am super new to Gekko and trading in general. Is it possible to program a strategy to sell if a high or low value is reached? For example, if the current price of BTC is 8000, and I want to sell the full amount if it reaches 10,000 or sell the full amount if it drops down to 7,500, can I do that with Gekko? Currently in Coinbase Pro (GDAX) won't let you set two limits on the same coin, you have to split it. If anyone knows, that would be helpful. Thanks!

Currency and asset

Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:59:32 +0000

Hello!
I would like to know on which currency i need to have a some balance? On asset or on currency. I mean the part when you choose your currency and asset? Gecko sometimes returns this message(screenshot in attachment) What does it mean?

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Coming up with a "Strategy"-strategy

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 23:43:51 +0000

Hi all,

I'm wondering: how do you guys define which strategy you are eventually going to use in live trading?

I've been doing a fair bit of backtesting, with both manual parameters setting and bruteforce/gekkoga results. Both on various strategies like MACD, RSI_BULL_BEAR(_ADX), RSI, etc. And of course on various timeframes.

With all these combinations I obviously get very mixed results. One strategy with a certain set of parameters perform better on certain timeframes and other strategies better on other timeframes.

As far as I can see it there are a couple of steps involved in defining what strategy you're going to use:
Determine which asset/currency you're going to trade;
BTC/USDT, ETH/BTC, XRP/ETH, etc.

What timeframe would you like to cover in your upcoming trade-periode;
Are you looking for shortterm (few weeks, a month) or longer term (months, year) trade-period?

What timeframe in the history would resemble your upcoming trade-periode (I guess this requires some feeling for the market);
Do you expect your upcoming trade-periode to be overall bullish or bearish?
Was there a time-span in history with a comparable trend?

What is the actual trade strategy you're going to use?
Do you base that on trying out a couple of strategies? Do you have a go-to strategy?

Finding the right parameters
(brutforce/gekkoga)backtesting?

To papertrade or not to papertrade?
Once you have your tradeperiod, strategy and parameters, do you actually start papertrading or do you start live-trading based on your research so far?

To be honest, I'm quite struggling with these steps. Perhaps my aproach is faulty or my knowledge lacking.

How did you come up with the set-up you're using for live-trading and which strategy are you using?

I would love to read it!

Gekko Trading - CLI or UI

Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:27:49 +0000

Hi there people

I would like to find out which is better for live trading. the Gekko CLI or UI? I am using the RSI_BULL_BEAR_ADX on CLI at the moment, the reason why I"m using CLI is because when I did backtesting over a few months (3 months, 4 months, 5 months and 6 months) I get a profit of between 135% - 180%

If someone can suggest which one and your reason for choosing it...

EG:- I say UI is beter because of xyz

It will be interesting to see what everyone suggests

Thanks

CLI Backtest USD.ETH.png (Size: 144.84 KB / Downloads: 62)

UI Backtest USD.ETH.png (Size: 171.37 KB / Downloads: 58)

How to create an automated trailing stop limit order?

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 08:09:43 +0000

Let's say I have a stock trading at $100. If it gets to $120 I want to have a trailing stop limit order initiated with a trailing amount of $1 let's say.
I only want the trailing stop limit to take effect once the stock reaches $120.
How to create an strategy to automate this process?

where put the amount and price for tranding on server live?

Tue, 15 May 2018 08:25:28 +0000

where put the amount and price for tranding on server live?

Help with charting

Fri, 11 May 2018 18:43:48 +0000

Hi guys,

So I'm trying to make a chart to help me visualize backtest data;

I've got the detailed_exposures.csv file, which as you know is structured like

Code:
Entry at (UTC)    Exit at (UTC)    Exposure    Entry balance    Exit balance    P&L    Profit

2017-08-26 05:00    2017-08-28 05:10    2 days    99.7    98.899    0.8    -0.80%

2017-08-28 20:40    2017-08-29 13:40    17 hours    98.603    105.704    7.1    7.20%

2017-08-29 18:30    2017-09-02 11:00    4 days    105.387    107.681    2.29    2.18%

2017-09-03 13:40    2017-09-03 15:10    2 hours    107.358    110.483    3.12    2.91%

I'm trying to figure out how I can chart it so that I've got an X axis that is "Time" and a Y axis that is "Balance."

So i would take a chart that has "time" on the bottom, and take each "entry at" and "entry balance" and plot them onto the chart, and each "exit at" and "exit balance" and plot them onto the chart. I think. But I'm not sure. And how the heck would I do that anyway?

Any help much appreciated. Or any guidance at all about how I can chart this data in an insightful or meaningful way.

multitrader-help needed

Tue, 08 May 2018 14:46:15 +0000

Hi,

I'm a huge noob with all things gekko and java. I'm interested in gekko's ability to trade more than one currency/market at a time.

All the guidance says get the plugin from here https://github.com/roelplieger/gekko/

The only problem is I have no idea what to do after clicking on that link.

Margin trading on bitfinex

Sun, 06 May 2018 19:26:06 +0000

Hi, does anybody knows how to set the gekko trading bot on bitfinex margin trading?
Thanks

Crossover EMA strat

Tue, 01 May 2018 00:17:22 +0000

Hi everyone.

I am trying to sort out a simple Crossover EMA strat. But I can't workout how to import two EMA indicators or how to code that in general.

has anybody done this who can point me in the right direction?

-Bird

where put the amount for trading ?

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:58:36 +0000

where put the amount for trading ?

Gekko don´t trade ??

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:42:07 +0000

hi,

the gekko don´t trade ? where put the amount in gekko for sell and buy?

help identifying a strategy I saw on exchange

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:25:51 +0000

I was trading on https://tradeogre.com and pretty quickly realized there was a few bots trading against me. Here is what I could see they were doing.

Buy coin at 1 sat higher than highest buy offer
Sell coin at 1 sat lower than lowest sell offer

Basically, they were exploiting a gap between the buy/sell books on a single coin on the exchange; I was doing the same thing. I know it was a bot because as soon as I put my order above/below it, it moved the order.

For further evidence, it was set to ignore any combined order above/below a predetermined amount-- for example. If I listed 4.5 coins for sale, it would move it's own order to exe before mine (price diff of 1 sat). But if my coin sale totaled 4.49 it would do nothing.

I used to this my advantage to find the floor of how low the bot would be willing to go, then leavel 4.5 coins there to hold the bot's order as low as possible while putting mine much higher up the order book to maximize my own profit. Conversely, I have also broke my order up to the 4.49 totals and traded in 1 sat price increments which means I didn't realize as much, but still got my orders executed before the bots.

tradeogre is a relatively low volume exchange, so getting the order traded first is important, especially on coins that have these gaps because they are even lower volume usually.

Just curious if anyone knows what this trade strategy is called. If anyone is curious to run it, I tripled my "fun" money (disposable money I just have for fun) in 2 weeks trading like this. Usually a buy/sell pairing every 4 hours or so. Trade pair profit ran from 3% to 14% usually around 8% though. I ended up stopping because my holdings were getting to the point of taking a long time to actually execute.

How to run Rsi-Bull-bear with command line (cli)

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:55:41 +0000

hi all

- Rsi-Bull-bear command line (cli) mod how to operate with

  Config.js ( Rsi-Bull-bear )how to write strategy

thank you

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   sample config.js
   https://github.com/xFFFFF

How to transfer historical data for trade bot with gekko (ui)

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:21:50 +0000

hi
I work with gekko (ui)
when I started a tradebot
does not accept the data I imported from the past
trade bot starts downloading data from the moment I start
How to add downloaded currency pair data gekko (ui)

How to transfer historical data for trade bot with[b] gekko (ui)

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thank you

Entrie, target and stop (AT THE SAME TIME)

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:55:16 +0000

There is a way to use gekko to put all at the same time and go to bed?

It can be at binance, bittrex or poloniex.com

custom basic strategy

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:21:09 +0000

i found that gekko trade bot is really useful to everyone but due to i am totally new so need some help and hoping that someone could teach or guide me.
i just need a simple and basic strategy to auto trade every time when fall in range specify, such as:

example:
buy/bid price: <7800
sell/ask price: by percentage

thank you very much and is highly appreciated.