Understanding the Gekko MACD strategy
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How do I get the MACD strategy to create a buy or sell order at the exact time of the crossover?

I'm looking at a 12/26/9 MACD with 30min candles on TradingView.com. It seems pretty clear to me when to buy and when to sell and make good profits, but of course I don't want to do that 24/7.

Trying to replicate that in Gekko, I'm thinking if I set the thresholds to 0 or a very small number like 0.00025 it should then react immediately on the crossover (with persistence = 0). But the backtest result doesn't seem to match up with the cross overs I see on TradingView. Buy and sell signals are all over the place.

Is there a way to see the MACD lines that Gekko is using to generate the signals, in the web UI? That would help a lot to understand and tweak.

Thanks!
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