Just wanted to post an update of how it's going. So far so good. It's working great. I do notice when I wake up and get home from work some of my strategies have stopped but that may be my computer or just 8 strait hours of running things can happen. Basically it does require a bit of babysitting but not bad. It's not a 100% set it and forget it.
I've had good days and bad days but I'm certainly up in the long run. I keep my buys/sells in the .05 - .1 btc range so I'm not playing with big money.
I love the marginmaker strategy but I would love to see a smart ping pong added in addition to marginmaker. Where it tries to put buys and sells toward the top of the bid or ask book and adjusts regularly when people stack orders on top of you. Maybe let you set it so you keep your orders in the top .5 btc of the book for example.
One of my strategies just quit on me. Looks like it made a successful buy and something went wrong when it tried to put in the sell that killed the strategy. I also get the (something like)"Active order. Would you like to cancel" window that pops up like I manually stopped the strategy.
All in all though I put my stamp of approval on this. Great work devs. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for your positive review!
Coming back to strategies that have stopped is never good. As long as the network connection is sound and your computer doesn't go to sleep, everything should be okay. Even when a connection is poor, in most cases leonArdo will recover - first suspending the strategy when the connection goes down, and then resuming when the connection is back up again. But, we agree that there are still some exceptional cases in which a strategy will stop for what seems like no good reason at all. If it happens again please send us the log file for the particular currency pair in the .leonArdo folder and we will try to figure out why exactly it has happened.
There is one known issue which occurs given the way exchange fees are taken. If you start buying the minimum amount possible, say 0.01 BTC, you will not receive 0.01 BTC as the fees are taking from this amount. This means you might only receive 0.0098 BTC. Now the strategy will try to place a sell order for 0.0098 BTC and it will fail as it's lower than the minimum allowed. We are looking into a fix for this which might be simply reducing the min amount you can start a bot with so that this doesn't occur in the future. The nice thing about the sliders we have created is that they make it easy to choose min and max amounts so we want this experience to continue to be a useful one.
Good idea about the dynamic ping pong strategy. Such a strategy is on our list...
All the best and thanks again