Awesome project, I was looking exactly for this! Thanks a lot for creating it!
I have no experience with php, nor setting up a server for this purpose. Can someone give me a quick help installing marginbot?
I saw some people mentioning 000webhost.com. I tried it but got stuck, couldn't figure out how to upload files and setup what I needed (kept getting an ftp error). If you have other suggestions of low-cost web servers to host it, I'm also up for it.
Best,
Andre
Topic: [ANN] MarginBot - A Bitfinex Margin Lending Management Bot - page 5. (Read 45879 times)
Is there any bot that supports ETH?
What kind of return could I expect from it ?
Is it really worth to use it compared to bitfinex platform only ?
I don't know how about BitFinex, but i'm using self-written bot for Poloniex and it is 1.5-5x more profitable. But on poloniex loan rate can change between 0.03% and 0.25%, so automatic system is much more critical. Is it really worth to use it compared to bitfinex platform only ?
Would you mind to share some information about your Lending Bot?
Regards
Andreas
Hi there,
I just want to say thank you to HowardF for this nice piece of software. I am running the bot for several days now and it works fine.
@HowardF: Do you plan to get back to the development of MarginBot, for example to add more features?
Kind regards from Germany
Andreas
I just want to say thank you to HowardF for this nice piece of software. I am running the bot for several days now and it works fine.
@HowardF: Do you plan to get back to the development of MarginBot, for example to add more features?
Kind regards from Germany
Andreas
What kind of return could I expect from it ?
Is it really worth to use it compared to bitfinex platform only ?
I don't know how about BitFinex, but i'm using self-written bot for Poloniex and it is 1.5-5x more profitable. But on poloniex loan rate can change between 0.03% and 0.25%, so automatic system is much more critical. Is it really worth to use it compared to bitfinex platform only ?
What kind of return could I expect from it ?
Is it really worth to use it compared to bitfinex platform only ?
Is it really worth to use it compared to bitfinex platform only ?
Bot still work?
Does this still work? I see the last update is from 2014, is the bot still operational?
Yeah, it great. Using it now. Compiled mine in November. 
Does this still work? I see the last update is from 2014, is the bot still operational?
Another thanks to the developers! I'm running this on a Ubuntu virtual machine running apache2 and php5. Took a bit of messing around to get it to work but now it's running smoothly.
Anyone interested in a tutorial for setting this up?
Anyone interested in a tutorial for setting this up?
a tutorial would have definitely been helpful. I messed around with it for a while and finally gave up.
Another thanks to the developers! I'm running this on a Ubuntu virtual machine running apache2 and php5. Took a bit of messing around to get it to work but now it's running smoothly.
Anyone interested in a tutorial for setting this up?
Anyone interested in a tutorial for setting this up?
Hi all, just want to say that it's awesome that this thread it still alive and a big THANK YOU to HowardF and deponzit for your efforts.
After only just learning about margin funding last week I got this up and running in a day. After some cron issues on asmallorange, it's running fantastically for my purposes.
I actually couldn't get the crons to run on the asmallorange cron tool, and sadly they expressly do not offer support for cron jobs. If anyone is familliar with A Small Orange and how to properly syntax a cron job there I'd love to hear more. Currently I'm using CronBlaster as EasyCron won't run 2 cron jobs with their free account.
Thanks again!
After only just learning about margin funding last week I got this up and running in a day. After some cron issues on asmallorange, it's running fantastically for my purposes.
I actually couldn't get the crons to run on the asmallorange cron tool, and sadly they expressly do not offer support for cron jobs. If anyone is familliar with A Small Orange and how to properly syntax a cron job there I'd love to hear more. Currently I'm using CronBlaster as EasyCron won't run 2 cron jobs with their free account.
Thanks again!
I am new to Margin Lending Bots, are the users satisfied of MarginBot or is there a better/well-known alternative ?
EDIT After some research I only found those alternatives :
cascadebot: A simple (but effective) lending bot for Bitfinex
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/deleted-867103
[ANN] BitfinexLendingBot - A bot for automated lending at Bitfinex
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-bitfinexlendingbot-a-bot-for-automated-lending-at-bitfinex-938362
BFX Swapmaster - BitFinex lending automation
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bfx-swapmaster-bitfinex-lending-automation-1207664
But it either looks scammy or dead.
do you use any of them and btw this margin bot is do the same as autorenew option at bitfinex?
It's not the same as autorenew. With autorenew you might wait a long time until your order gets taken. But margin bot sets your offers so that they are always at places where they will be taken fast and where they will bring the most profit most probably. Try it, it's a nice tool.
I am new to Margin Lending Bots, are the users satisfied of MarginBot or is there a better/well-known alternative ?
EDIT After some research I only found those alternatives :
cascadebot: A simple (but effective) lending bot for Bitfinex
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/deleted-867103
[ANN] BitfinexLendingBot - A bot for automated lending at Bitfinex
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-bitfinexlendingbot-a-bot-for-automated-lending-at-bitfinex-938362
BFX Swapmaster - BitFinex lending automation
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bfx-swapmaster-bitfinex-lending-automation-1207664
But it either looks scammy or dead.
do you use any of them and btw this margin bot is do the same as autorenew option at bitfinex?
I am new to Margin Lending Bots, are the users satisfied of MarginBot or is there a better/well-known alternative ?
EDIT After some research I only found those alternatives :
cascadebot: A simple (but effective) lending bot for Bitfinex
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/deleted-867103
[ANN] BitfinexLendingBot - A bot for automated lending at Bitfinex
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-bitfinexlendingbot-a-bot-for-automated-lending-at-bitfinex-938362
BFX Swapmaster - BitFinex lending automation
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bfx-swapmaster-bitfinex-lending-automation-1207664
But it either looks scammy or dead.
any chance to make it work on poloniex?
I'm getting a 500 server error when I try to install it. Hmm
Edit: Nevermind, I didn't have cURL installed hahahaha! I've set the bot up and it looks good so far. Only issue in when I try to load the "View Overall Returns" page it never loads for me. I'll look into it later.
Edit: Nevermind, I didn't have cURL installed hahahaha! I've set the bot up and it looks good so far. Only issue in when I try to load the "View Overall Returns" page it never loads for me. I'll look into it later.
Interesting Project, glad to see its still an active thread and still alive. I'll try it out and send a donation your way if I end up using it! 
Just a quick update for everyone:
If you are having issues with MarginBot updating your daily returns, its because of change bitfinex made to their API a while ago. Just change the following and it should start working again:
/inc/ExchangeAPIs/bitfinex.php
LINE 148:
if($l['description'] == 'Swap Payment on wallet deposit'){
change to:
if(strtolower($l['description']) == strtolower('Swap Payment on wallet deposit') || strtolower($l['description'])==strtolower('Margin Funding Payment on wallet Deposit') ){
Should start updating your daily returns again.
If you are having issues with MarginBot updating your daily returns, its because of change bitfinex made to their API a while ago. Just change the following and it should start working again:
/inc/ExchangeAPIs/bitfinex.php
LINE 148:
if($l['description'] == 'Swap Payment on wallet deposit'){
change to:
if(strtolower($l['description']) == strtolower('Swap Payment on wallet deposit') || strtolower($l['description'])==strtolower('Margin Funding Payment on wallet Deposit') ){
Should start updating your daily returns again.
Thanks! After fiddling with it this morning, I discovered that I am getting an error in the database.php file.
Code:
Cannot instantiate non-existent class: mysqli
I'm not anywhere near a development box to test this, so it's possible this is a red herring, but...
There's a compile-time flag for mysqli - PHP needs to be compiled with the flag set. It's also version-dependent. My first assumption would be that the version of PHP you're running against doesn't have mysqli enabled (if you're running this on a hosted server your host's sys admin may be able to solve this for you. If you're running it on your own server it'll be very much OS-specific, but I might be able to help).
Thanks, I was with a host that didn't support mysqli. I ended up putting it on Pi LAMP server, all is working fine. With the exception of the Swap rates....
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